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Now India's very own gold coins

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rajalakshmi Nirmal
The Hindu, Chennai, India
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Indian Overseas Bank kicked off sale of Indian gold coins on Friday at its branches in Mumbai on the occasion of Gudi Padwa. The Reserve Bank of India had given the nod to banks in January to sell these coins.

China goes prospecting for world's gold mines

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Biman Mukerji
The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Chinese gold miners are aggressively scouting for overseas acquisitions, encouraged by historically low gold prices that could help them scoop up assets cheaply.

Jeff Clark: Here's why you should stay away from gold ETFs

Section: Daily Dispatches

1p HKT Sunday, April 10, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jeff Clark, senior metals analyst for Hard Assets Alliance, explained this week why gold exchange-traded funds are not really gold at all for the ordinary investor but rather mere claims on an asset that may not be accessible when an investor really wants it.

In Cambodia, the ghosts prefer dollars

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Julia Wallace
The New York Times
Friday, April 8, 2016

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- One recent morning Suon Sokhum, a colonel in the Cambodian Army, was shopping for gifts for his ancestors.

Qingming, the annual festival to honor the dead, was coming up, and throughout the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, people burn offerings to provide for their ancestors in the spirit world.

Senior bosses at world's biggest banks 'knew LIBOR was rigged'

Section: Daily Dispatches

This is funny since the Telegraph itself knows that the gold market is rigged too but won't report it any more than the bankers on trial here reported the rigging they saw.

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Senior Bosses at World's Biggest Banks 'Knew LIBOR Was Rigged'

By Tim Wallace
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Ronan Manly: The gold vaults of Hong Kong

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:50p HKT Saturday, April 9, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher Ronan Manly this week examines the gold vaults of Hong Kong, where, he notes, far more gold transfers are made than in the gold vaults associated with the New York Commodities Exchange. Manly's study is headlined "The Gold Vaults of Hong Kong: Brinks, Malca Amit, Loomis" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

GoldSeek Radio interviews GATA's Murphy and Sprott's Embry

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:31p HKT Saturday, April 9, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek this week interviewed GATA Chairman Bill Murphy for 14 minutes about developments in the gold market --

http://news.goldseek.com/radio/1460127802.php

-- as well as Sprott Asset Management's John Embry for about 12 minutes:

http://news.goldseek.com/radio/1460127600.php

Actual life in the junior gold mining sector

Section: Daily Dispatches

Oceana Gold announces strategic investment in NuLegacy Gold

Company Press Release
via CNW Group, Montreal
Thursday, April 7, 2016

War on cash and savers will prompt scramble for real metal, Hathaway says

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:55p HKT Friday, April 8, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Tocqueville Gold Fund manager John Hathaway tells King World News today that the war on cash and savers being waged by central banks likely will prompt a scramble for physical gold -- and there isn't much available for sale at current prices. An excerpt from Hathaway's interview is posted at KWN here:

Peter DeGraaf: Gold and silver miners should 'starve the paper market'

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:46p HTK Friday, April 8, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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