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Ronan Manly's encyclopedia of the world's gold markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:12p ET Wednesday, March 10, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Munich Re stashes gold and cash to counter negative rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

MUNICH, Germany -- German reinsurer Munich Re is boosting its gold and cash reserves in the face of the punishing negative interest rates from the European Central Bank, it said today.

Koos Jansen: China and Kazakhstan join forces in the gold market

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:55p ET Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen today reports signs of increasing cooperation in the gold market between China and Kazakhstan and other Asia nations. His report is headlined "Kazakhstan and China Join Forces in the Gold Market" and it's posted at Bullion Star here:

Moriarty says Rickards minimizes gold manipulation but Rickards actually emphasizes it

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:03p ET Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

No gold market analyst or mining stock tout is more determined to deny the manipulation of the gold market by central banks than Bob Moriarty, proprietor of 321Gold.com. Moriarty is always taking cracks, often gratuitous ones, at those who complain about that manipulation. But today Moriarty outdid himself.

Closer look at London Metal Exchange aluminum prices reveals anomalies

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pratima Desai
Reuters
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

LONDON -- A first glance at aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange yields few surprises, yet a closer look often reveals anomalies caused by one market participant holding large amounts of metal.

U.S. inflation rears its ugly head as global cycle nears danger zone

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The trigger for the next global recession is at last coming into view after a series of loud distractions and false alarms.

TF Metals Report: Gold futures market again in smashdown position

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:56p ET Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The TF Metals Report's Turd Ferguson today examines the charts of the gold futures market positions of the bullion banks and the small speculators and notes that the two groups are positioned as they always are just before the gold is smashed down in the famous "wash, rinse, repeat" cycle of gold price suppression.

So where's all that imaginary gold coming from and why?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:23p ET Monday, March 14, 2016

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Damned Turks! Who the hell do they think they are -- Indians?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Why Turks Are Skipping Banks and Keeping Their Gold at Home

By Mehmet Cetingulec
Al-Monitor, Washington, D.C.
Monday, March 13, 2016

BlackRock was buying lots of GLD while fumbling its own gold fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

How BlackRock Took a Shine to a Competitor's Gold ETF

By Leslie Josephs
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, March 14, 2016

BlackRock, whose popular exchange-traded gold product briefly suspended the creation of new shares this month due to an administrative error amid a surge in demand, has been making a hefty bet on a gold ETF lately.

But here's the twist: It was a competitor's ETF.

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