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Americans cash out on gold coins as Asian investors bulk up

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By Yvonne Yue Li
Bloomberg News
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Americans who once snapped up gold bars and coins are offloading the assets while their Asian counterparts show no letup in bullion buying, a sign investors on opposite sides of the world have different outlooks on the global economy.

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Another options-expiration smash to be followed by another step up, Maguire tells LFTV

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10:14p ET Friday, June 27, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program that this week's clobbering of gold and silver prices was another futures market operation, this time led by Citibank, tied to month-end options expirations. Maguire says another "stairstep" rise in physical prices will follow shortly.

The program is 47 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

China opens first offshore gold vault in Hong Kong

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By Yihui Xie and Sybilla Gross
Bloomberg News
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Shanghai Gold Exchange has expanded outside mainland China for the first time, with the rollout of two new contracts and a bullion vault in Hong Kong.

The launch serves a number of purposes, from broadening the Shanghai bourse's international reach, to strengthening China's clout in commodity and currency markets and Hong Kong's status as a financial center.

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Copper faces historic squeeze with LME stockpiles depleting fast

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By Mark Burton
Bloomberg News
Monday, June 23, 2025

One of the copper market's biggest-ever squeezes is unfolding on the London Metal Exchange, as rapidly declining inventories push up spot prices.

Spot copper traded at a $280-a-ton premium to three-month futures today, hitting the highest level seen since a record spike in 2021. The huge spot premium -- known as a backwardation -- signals a supply shortage, and it comes after a rapid drawdown in LME inventories over the past few months.

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Survey finds central banks want gold, euro, and yuan as dollar dominance wanes

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By Yoruk Bahceli and Dhara Ranasinghe
Reuters
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

LONDON -- The custodians of trillions of dollars of global central bank reserves are eyeing a move away from the greenback into gold, the euro and China's yuan as the splintering of world trade and geopolitical upheaval spark a rethink of financial flows.

Agnico Eagle CEO sees only one reason to buy a gold stock

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By Geoffrey Morgan and Jacob Lorinc
Bloomberg News
Monday, June 23, 2025

The head of one of the most valuable gold miners believes there's only one reason to buy a gold mining stock -- and too few companies in the industry are offering it to investors.

"The only reason you want to buy an equity is if it gives you a better return than just buying gold," Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Ammar Al-Joundi said in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Germany and Italy are being pressed to bring $245 billion of gold home from U.S.

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By Olaf Storbeck and Amy Kazmin
Financial Times, London
Monday, June 23, 2025

Germany and Italy are facing calls to move their gold out of New York following President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the U.S. Federal Reserve and increasing geopolitical turbulence.

Fabio De Masi, a former Die Linke member of the European Parliament who joined the leftwing populist BSW party, told the Financial Times that there were "strong arguments" for relocating more gold to Europe or Germany "in turbulent times."

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20 years ago Peter George warned you not to expect gold to rise much tomorrow

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11p ET Sunday, June 22, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Over the weekend financial writers were speculating that the price of gold would rise substantially Monday because of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear bomb-making infrastructure and the resulting international tensions. Longtime followers of GATA might have just laughed, figuring that gold would probably perform counterintuitively on account of surreptitious crisis intervention by central banks.

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After U.S. attacks on Iran, gold eyes $3,450 Monday, $3,500 this week

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Of course that assumes that the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve don't launch a corresponding attack on the monetary metals. At least this one won't be a surprise attack.

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By Arsian Butt
FX Leaders, Dubai
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Gold is once again back in the highlights following the United States' surprise strikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend. The global atmosphere has turned deeply risk-averse. As the world braces for a potential escalation, traders and investors are eyeing gold as a haven amid geopolitical chaos.

Wyoming closer to using gold and silver as legal currency

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By Renee Jean
Cowboy State Daily, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Friday, June 20, 2025

When state Sen. Bob Ide, R-Casper, introduced the Wyoming Gold Act earlier this year -- which requires the Wyoming state treasurer to buy and hold at least $10 million in physical gold -- the price of gold was much lower. 

It was hovering in the $2,600 to $2,700 per ounce range. Now gold is soaring high at $3,385 an ounce, and even reached $3,500 in April. Any gold bought then would already be worth about 33% more.

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