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Michael Lynch: Comex gold selloff is all paper-driven as record physical buying continues
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-10-22 15:37 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michael Lynch
Econanalytics.Substack.com
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Analyzing Comex data since the price roller-coaster began last Friday, Oct. 17, indicates that paper shorts flooded the market at record high volume driving the price down. December contract open interest dropped as paper longs folded.
However, physical gold bought on the October contract continued at a sizzling record pace. Two large players emerge from being somewhat dormant, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley house accounts, and bought much of the physical gold.
Stuart Englert: Price volatility is a psychological tactic built into the gold futures market
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-10-22 08:41 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
StuartEnglert.Substack.com
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The best way to discourage bullion buying in a bull market, and to contain gold and silver prices, is to increase volatility. The greater the instability, the greater the unpredictability of price moves, both up and down.
London gold association calls for city to revive plans for futures contract
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-10-22 08:34 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Leslie Hook
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The new chair of the London Bullion Market Association has called for the revival of gold futures trading in the UK, despite the failure of earlier attempts to establish a derivatives contract in the world's $35 trillion-a-year physical gold trading capital.
Who's selling today, and selling what -- metal or paper? Mainstream financial journalism won't ask
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-10-21 10:51 Section: Daily Dispatches10:57a ET Tuesday, Ocober 21, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
Market analysts are searching for an explanation for today's bombing of gold and silver prices. For example:
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Gold and Silver Prices Slide in Abrupt Selloff
By Adam Whittaker
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gold-edges-higher-on-likely-dip-buying-interest-f9df606f
Join GATA at the New Orleans conference and seize the many opportunities there
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-10-20 19:34 Section: Daily Dispatches7:35p ET Monday, October 20, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and your secretary/treasurer will be speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, to be held Sunday to Wednesday, November 2-5, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, and with gold and silver prices strong and rising, it stands to be as promising a financial conference as there has ever been. We'd love to see you there. But please note that the conference admission price will rise by $100 this Thursday. So don't let the price increase get in your way.
Tons of silver from U.S., China ease London squeeze, sources tell Reuters
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-10-20 17:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Polina Revitt
Reuters
Monday, October 20, 2025
LONDON -- Large flows of silver from the U.S. and China to London's spot market in the past week are easing a liquidity squeeze in the world's largest over-the-counter precious metals trading hub, traders and analysts said.
A shortage of available metal in the London market helped drive silver prices to a premium over U.S. Comex futures a week ago, making deliveries by airplane -- usually reserved for much more expensive gold -- profitable for sellers.
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Ed Steer: 'Da boyz' carpet-bomb the precious metals
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 11:33 Section: Daily Dispatches11:32a ET Sunday, October 19, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "'Da Boyz' Carpet-Bomb the Precious Metals" and is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:
https://silverseek.com/article/da-boyz-carpet-bomb-precious-metals
Gold's historic rally comes with a bonus for emerging markets
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 10:55 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Selcuk Gokoluk
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Sunday, October 19, 2025
A relentless surge in the price of gold is delivering windfalls across emerging markets, boosting investor confidence in countries that mine and buy the metal.
In South Africa, home to the world's deepest gold mines, stocks are on track for the best year in two decades, with shares of miners like Sibanye Stillwater, AngloGold Ashanti, and Gold Fields tripling in value.
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Tokens of love, keepsakes, and mementos are melted down in the rush to cash in
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-10-19 09:01 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dionne Searcey
The New York Times
Sunday, October 19, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/diamond-district-gold-rush.html
The lights weren't even on yet at Bullion Exchanges in Midtown Manhattan, but a customer was already standing outside, holding a crumpled Target bag stuffed with what she hoped were valuable treasures.
Time Magazine: The new gold rush
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-10-18 13:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Charlie Campbell
Time Magazine, New York
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
KUMASI, Ghana -- Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered with rickety timber frames. On every slope, gumbooted workers shovel the tawny earth down to muddy pools in the furrows, from whence the sludge is pumped to the frame’s zenith to gush down a shallow ramp lined with webbed plastic matting. At the base, more workers sweep the outflow with metal detectors.
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