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Clashes over policy at Shanghai G20 meeting

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By Robin Harding in Shanghai and Tom Mitchell in Beijing
Financial Times, London
Friday, February 26, 2016

Finance ministers and central bankers clashed on Friday over issues ranging from the need for global stimulus to negative interest rates, suggesting they were unlikely to agree on "bold" measures urged by the International Monetary Fund earlier this week.

T.F. Metals Report: Aggressive silver capping continues

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9:15p ET Thursday, February 25, 2016

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Alasdair Macleod: On monetary finance and platinum coins

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By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney.com, Jersey, Channel Islands
Thursday, February 25, 2016

It has become clear to everyone in the financial world that the monetary policies pursued by central banks have completely failed in their objectives.

Venezuela is shipping gold to Europe to pay debt

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By Patrick Gillespie
CNN, New York
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Venezuela is shipping gold to Europe so that it can pay its debt.

Venezuela sent $1.3 billion worth of gold bars to Switzerland in January, according to data from the Swiss Federal Customs Administration.

Koos Jansen: Comex gold futures contracts can be settled off exchange

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9:56a ET Thursday, February 25, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen notes today that Comex gold futures contracts do not have to be settled by delivery of gold deposited with a Comex member warehouse, but also can be settled with gold anywhere in the world that purportedly is considered equivalent to the gold in the contract.

Koos Jansen: Dutch central bank thinks about coming clean on gold reserves

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4:30p ET Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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CNBC Asia interviews GATA chairman on the failing efforts to suppress gold

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9:47p ET Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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Avery Goodman: Why gold prices are headed up now

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7:50p ET Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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Negative rates, devaluations hasten 'commercial signal failure' in metals, Embry says

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2:15p ET Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Negative interest rates and currency devaluations are hastening a "commercial signal failure" in the monetary metals metals, Sprott Asset Management's John Embry tells King World News today. An excerpt from the interview is posted at KWN here:

Robert Appel: Technical analysis is just a weapon against the gold market

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8:25a ET Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Profit Confidential editor Robert Appel writes this week that the manipulation of the gold market by central banks is obvious and that such rigging turns ordinary technical analysis into a weapon against that market.

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