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Gold Reserve makes push in Luxembourg to collect Venezuela award
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2015-04-14 07:59 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alexandra Ulmer
Reuters
Monday, April 13, 2015
Gold Reserve Inc. has served banks in Luxembourg with the equivalent of writs of garnishment relating to around $700 million in interest payments on Venezuelan bonds and funds, cranking up its push to collect an arbitration award from the South American country.
FT: Greece prepares for debt default if talks with creditors fail
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-04-13 20:13 Section: Daily DispatchesKerin Hope and Tony Barber
Financial Times, London
Monday, April 13, 2015
Greece is preparing to take the dramatic step of declaring a debt default unless it can reach a deal with its international creditors by the end of April, according to people briefed on the radical leftist government's thinking.
Ronan Manly: IMF's gold moves around and changes quality
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-04-13 20:07 Section: Daily Dispatches8:07p ET Monday, April 13, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Central bankers gather privately in Washington this Friday to discuss gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-04-13 15:04 Section: Daily Dispatches3p ET Monday, April 13, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Attention, mainstream financial journalists! Here's something else important for you to ignore this week, thanks to the diligent eye of gold researcher and GATA consultant Ronan Manly.
T.F. Metals Report: Bank participation report update
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2015-04-13 13:42 Section: Daily Dispatches1:42p ET Monday, April 13, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold-futures trading big banks seem to have completed another cycle of price suppression and the price of gold futures is likely to incline upward now, the TF Metals Report's Turd Ferguson reports today. His commentary is headlined "Bank Participation Report Update" and it's posted at the T.F. Metals Report here:
Somebody besides GATA calls attention to the Bank for International Settlements
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2015-04-11 21:16 Section: Daily Dispatches9:34p ET Saturday, April 11, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Zero Hedge tonight publishes a long excerpt from what may be the most recent serious treatment of the Bank for International Settlements, the 2013 book "Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World" by Adam LeBor --
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-11/meet-secretive-group-runs-world
Deutsche Bank nears plea deal over Libor manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-04-10 21:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
The New York Times
Thursday, April 9, 2015
A long-running investigation into Wall Street's manipulation of interest rates is heading into a stark final chapter as authorities around the globe push Deutsche Bank to pay a record penalty and accept a criminal guilty plea for the unit at the center of the case.
Alasdair Macleod: Confusion over U.S. unemployment
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-04-10 12:16 Section: Daily Dispatches12:15p ET Friday, April 10, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
U.S. unemployment statistics are so unreliable that they never should be used as economic indicators, GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes today. His commentary is headlined "Confusion over U.S. Unemployment" and it's posted at GoldMoney here:
Tocqueville's strategy letter: Gold is as contrarian as it was in 1999
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-04-10 08:30 Section: Daily Dispatches8:30a ET Friday, April 10, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
India's rich temples may open gold vaults for Prime Minister Modi
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2015-04-10 08:02 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Meenakshi Sharma and Krishna N. Das
Reuters
Thursday, April 9, 2015
The two-century-old Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai devoted to the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha bristles with closed-circuit cameras and is guarded by 65 security officers.