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China's love affair with gold heats up on property boom riches
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2018-02-06 18:52 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ranjeetha Pakiam and Daniela Wei
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
China's growing throng of affluent consumers is driving a rebound in demand for gold rings, bracelets, and necklaces as a property boom and high stock market valuations boost wealth in the largest bullion market.
U.S. regulators to back more oversight of virtual currencies
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-02-05 22:50 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder
Reuters
Monday, February 5, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Digital currencies such as bitcoin demand increased oversight and may require a new federal regulatory framework, the top U.S. markets regulators will tell lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
Mike Kosares: Gold takes center stage in dollar scare
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-02-05 14:31 Section: Daily Dispatches2:32p ET Monday, February 5, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Trump administration, USAGold's Mike Kosares writes today, doesn't want the "strong dollar" policy of previous administrations but a dollar that can be "strategically benign."
Fines against bullion banks for market rigging vindicate GATA, Sprott says
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-02-04 20:46 Section: Daily Dispatches8:47p ET Sunday, February 4, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Sudanese pound is on the way to becoming an ounce
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-02-04 16:40 Section: Daily DispatchesSudan Central Bank Weakens Bank Trading Exchange Rate to 31.5 Pounds to Dollar
From Reuters
Sunday, February 4, 2018
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's central bank said today it had decided to weaken the exchange rate at which banks can trade their scarce supply of dollars to an upper limit of 31.5 Sudanese pounds per U.S. dollar.
Bitcoin ban expands across credit cards as big U.S. banks recoil
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-02-03 17:03 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jennifer Surane and Laura J. Keller
Bloomberg News
Friday, February 2, 2018
A growing number of big U.S. credit-card issuers are deciding they don’t want to finance a falling knife.
Silver Doctors interviews GATA's Murphy on Friday's market crashes
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2018-02-03 10:10 Section: Daily Dispatches10:11a ET Saturday, February 3, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Is U.S. waging a 'cold war' to weaken the dollar?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2018-02-02 10:07 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Daniel Shane
CNN, Atlanta
Friday, February 2, 2018
The dollar is at its weakest level in years against other major currencies. Experts say the drop is being driven, at least in part, by the U.S. government. And some suggest it's a deliberate campaign aimed at boosting the American economy at the expense of major trading partners like Europe and Japan.
All trapped gold miners in S. Africa rescued unhurt
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2018-02-02 07:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jeanette Chabalala
News24, Johannesburg
Friday, February 2, 2018
WELKOM, South Africa -- The National Union of Mineworkers confirmed today that all 955 Sibanye Gold mine workers who were trapped underground have been resurfaced.
"The mine workers were rescued at around 6:30 this morning," the union's national spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, confirmed to News24.
Nearly a thousand gold miners trapped underground in South Africa
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-02-01 17:08 Section: Daily DispatchesCentral banks and bullion banks are working hard to keep them trapped.
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By Allan Seccombe
Business Day, Johannesburg
Thursday, February 1, 2018
About 950 workers are trapped underground at Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in the Free State, after an overnight power failure cause by a lightning strike.
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