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Mark Mahaffey: Where has all the gold gone?

Section: Daily Dispatches

1p ET Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hinde Capital's co-founder and chief financial officer, Mark Mahaffey, writes today that the World Gold Council's new metric for calculating gold mining costs --

http://www.gold.org/media/press_releases/archive/2013/06/guidance_note_o...

Tocqueville gold fund's Hathaway earns a probationary tin-foil hat

Section: Daily Dispatches

9a ET Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Tocqueville gold fund manager John Hathaway's new investor letter attributes the recent fall in the gold price to a bear raid by investment banks and hedge funds doing naked shorting.

Another gold market observer suspects West-to-East arbitrage

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:26p ET Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

UBS opens gold vault in Singapore

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Francesa Freeman and Clementine Wallop
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732393640457858134142731584...

Swiss bank UBS said Tuesday that for the first time it has started storing gold in Asia, a move that reflects continued strong demand for the precious metal in the region as Western investors dump their holdings.

Gene Arensberg: Comex commercials nearly net long gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:46p ET Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gene Arensberg's new edition of the Got Gold Report focuses on the remarkable transformation of the largest commercial traders from short to long gold.

Arensberg writes:

Turk suspects panic dishoarding of Western gold to rescue insolvent banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:22p ET Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Unprecedented volumes of gold are moving around the world, probably about 500 tonnes each month, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk tells King World News today, and he says it likely is a matter of panic dishoarding by Western central banks to rescue failing commercial banks.

Jeff Nielson: Fraud confirmed -- 100-day delay to take metal delivery

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:35p ET Monday, July 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jeff Nielson of Bullion Bulls Canada today reflects on the London Metal Exchange's admission that delivery delays for metal now can exceed 100 days:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-01/lme-seeks-to-reduce-lines-at-wa...

Alasdair Macleod: Gold's undervaluation is extreme

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:08p ET Monday, July 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bernanke's conundrum -- What it might mean for gold

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12:46p ET Monday, July 1, 2013

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Banks charged with blocking credit default swaps market

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alex Barker
Financial Times, London
Monday, July 1, 2013

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6c57880-e235-11e2-87ec-00144feabdc0.html

Brussels charged the world's biggest investment banks on Monday with colluding to restrict vital market information so rivals could not set up competing derivatives trading platforms.

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