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Foreign investors in U.S. assets rush for protection against swings in dollar
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-09-17 08:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ian Smith and Emily Herbert
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Foreign investors in U.S. assets are rushing to hedge their exposure to the dollar, in a sign of increased nervousness about the impact of Donald Trump's agenda on the world’s dominant currency.
Hedged investments into US bonds and equities are outstripping unhedged holdings for the first time in four years, according to Deutsche Bank analysis, after a sharp move since Trump's election last November.
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Inside the century-old building standing above 400,000 gold bars
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-09-16 10:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBut exactly what's happening with those gold bars? The BBC didn't ask
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By Tim Stokes
British Broadcasting Corp., London
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The echoing boom of a slammed door rattles around the walls of the Bank of England's grand columned entrance.
Across the floor and walls sprawl grand mosaics and sculptures depicting lions, piles of gold, thunderbolts, and ancient Roman gods.
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Hong Kong to explore boosting tokenised gold trading in city
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-09-16 10:17 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Cannix Yau
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Authorities are looking into boosting tokenised gold trading in Hong Kong as a step forward to becoming the world's first such settlement centre and shielding the city against U.S.-dollar dominance amid rising geopolitics, the Post has learned.
Clint Siegner: The cost of living is falling fast -- relative to gold, that is
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 17:23 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, September 15, 2025
Americans are feeling the pinch when it comes to price inflation. Rising prices are a political football with politicians on both sides of the aisle eager to pin blame on the other party.
Both sides are correct. Politicians, along with the central bank they created and continue to endorse, are fully responsible for the affordability crisis and the fading American dream.
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Gold hasn't rallied this much since 1979
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 17:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Uberti and Ben Eisen
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Monday, September 15, 2025
Kenneth Pack invested in gold for the first time in April to shield himself from what he saw as the disorder of the new Trump administration. The chaos trade was just heating up.
Thailand considers tax on gold trades to slow rally in baht
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-09-15 07:53 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Suttinee Yuvejwattana
Bloomberg News
via The Business Times, Singapore
Monday, September 15, 2025
BANGKOK -- Thai authorities are reported to be considering a tax on physical gold trading to slow a rally in the nation's currency that has threatened exports and tourism. The baht fell the most in six weeks.
Stuart Englert: Make the dollar great again
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-09-14 14:20 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
StuartEnglert.Substack.com
Friday, September 12, 2025
World history is littered with the corpses of collapsed and obsolete currencies. The U.S. dollar eventually could be among them without a major monetary reset.
From the Roman denarius to the German mark and South Vietnamese dong to the Soviet ruble, hundreds of currencies have been debased, diluted, demonetized, and discarded along the proverbial path of financial destruction.
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Bill Holter tells LFTV that systemic failure starts with silver
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-09-13 20:02 Section: Daily Dispatches8p ET Saturday, September 13, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Monetary metals analyst Bill Holter, London metals trader Andrew Maguire's guest this week on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, discusses the risk to the world financial system posed by the naked short position in the silver markets.
The program is headlined "Systemic Failure Starts with Silver," is 48 minutes long, and can be found at the Kinesis Money channel at YouTube here:
Ghana, Africa's top gold producer, will begin local gold refining drive this year
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-09-13 18:19 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Business Insider, New York
Saturday, September 13, 2025
The Ghana Gold Board has announced plans to commence local gold refining and introduce fire assay operations in October.
The development was disclosed by the chief executive officer of the board, Sammy Gyamfi, at the Mining and Minerals Convention in Accra on Tuesday, September 9.
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China proposes rule changes to ease gold imports and exports
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-09-13 09:28 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Bloomberg News
via The Times of India, Mumbai
Saturday, September 13, 2025
China is seeking to ease licensing rules for gold imports and exports as the world's largest consumer of the precious metal continues to diversify its reserves away from U.S. dollars.
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