BIS gold swaps hold steady in October
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-11-09 16:51 Section: Daily Dispatches4:50p ET Sunday, November 9, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA consultant Robert Lambourne calculates tonight that the volume of gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements remained nearly unchanged in October, 53.5 tonnes against the 54 tonnes reported for September.
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Jesse Colombo: Why gold's bull market is still young
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-11-09 12:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jesse Colombo
TheBubbleBubble.Substack.com
Sunday, November 9, 2025
I'm a fan of finding and using unique ways to value assets to determine whether they are cheap or not. In the case of precious metals and other commodities, this isn't as straightforward as it is with assets like stocks, bonds, or real estate, where you can use simple metrics such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book value ratios.
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GATA is gaining in the struggle over gold and silver but needs your help to win
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-11-09 11:43 Section: Daily Dispatches11:50a ET Sunday, November 9, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
While monetary metals prices stand near record levels, their recent smashdowns in the futures markets show that the struggle against market manipulation isn't over. We're gaining but we haven't yet won.
GATA long has been and remains at the forefront of the struggle, as you may see from your secretary/treasurer's presentation last week at the New Orleans Investment Conference:
Alaska’s new mining rush chases something more coveted than gold
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-11-08 14:12 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jon Emont and Angela Owens
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Saturday, November 8, 2025
ESTER, Alaska -- At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold.
But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed the rock aside. He and his team of geologists were searching for something even more sought-after: antimony, an obscure element widely used in the defense industry that is now at the center of the bitter U.S.-China trade fight.
Vietnam is trying to get tons of hoarded gold back into circulation
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-11-07 22:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and Francesca Stevens
Bloomberg News
Thursday, November 6, 2025
For weeks, 67-year-old Le Thi Minh Tam has been scouring Hanoi for gold to give her son at his upcoming wedding, battling long queues outside shops whose stock sells out fast.
"I'm getting worried, as I still don't have enough," Tam says with a sigh. "They don't sell gold bars anymore, only gold rings with a very limited amount for each customer."
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U.S. adds silver and copper to 'critical minerals' list
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2025-11-06 13:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Leslie Hook
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 6, 2025
The U.S. Department of the Interior has added copper, silver, and metallurgical coal to its list of "critical minerals," increasing the likelihood that these materials could be included in future tariff policies.
