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Trump pivots to embrace a strong U.S. dollar

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By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
Reuters
Thursday, May 14, 2020

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump may be warming to a strong dollar after years of bashing the U.S. currency’s stubborn appreciation.

"It's a great time to have a strong dollar. ... Everybody wants to be in the dollar because we kept it strong. I kept it strong," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business News.

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12:10p ET Friday, May 15, 2020

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Hedge funds have beaten bullion banks with gold, Macleod tells KWN

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:14p ET Thursday, May 14, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hedge funds appear to have defeated the bullion banks in the gold market, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod tells King World News today.

HSBC lost about $200 million in one day amid gold market turmoil

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By Jack Farchy and Harry Wilson
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

HSBC Holdings ost around $200 million in one day in March because of disruptions to the gold market that caused prices to diverge dramatically in key trading hubs, according to a filing by the bank.

Nick Barisheff: ETFs are just the illusion of owning gold

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9:22p ET Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Exchange-traded funds are emphatically not the way to own the monetary metals, BMG Group founder Nick Barisheff writes in his latest market letter. Rather, Barisheff explains, ETFs supply only "the illusion of owning gold."

Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: Scotiabank jumps ship

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8:55p ET Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Why is the oldest bullion bank, the Bank of Nova Scotia, getting out of the bullion business?

U.S. regulators started Scotiabank probe before metals desk closure, filings show

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By Peter Hobson
Reuters
Friday, May 8, 2020

LONDON -- U.S. regulators were investigating Bank of Nova Scotia's metals trading activities several months before it told staff it would wind down the unit, according to its most recent earnings report.

Dave Kranzler: A hopelessly corrupt financial system plus historic bubbles -- Got gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics, Denver
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Federal Reserve has re-inflated the biggest stock and asset bubble in history after the previously biggest stock bubble was punctured in March.

Today the Fed will begin buying junk bond/leveraged loan exchange-traded funds using Blackrock as its front. There ars two obvious problems with this.

Once taboo, investors begin to imagine negative U.S. rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Tom Westbrook
Reuters
Tuesday, May 12

Negative interest rates in the United States were once unimaginable. The coronavirus has changed that.

While the Federal Reserve has all but ruled it out, the sweeping economic and financial-markets impact of the pandemic has forced investors to give serious thought to the implications of such a drastic policy shift.

Trump hails 'gift' of negative rates that Fed officials disdain

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Josh Wingrove
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. should receive the "gift" of negative interest rates, after three Federal Reserve officials signaled the central bank is cool to the idea.

Trump has long expressed his desire for the U.S. to pay negative interest on its debt.

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