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Silver squeeze grips London market as China limits exports, Maguire tells LFTV

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:33p ET Friday, October 17, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

On this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says the London market is losing control of the silver price to China, which is limiting silver exports. 

London has virtually no physical silver for immediate delivery, Maguire says, and the short squeeze there has begun.

The program is 43 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

'More buyers than sellers'? No, fewer but much bigger buyers

Section: Daily Dispatches

Asked by a CNBC reporter what's behind the rise in gold, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent replied that "there are more buyers than sellers."

-- MarketWatch, Thursday, October 16, 2025
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-hot-topic-at-the-imf-meetings-is-the-price-of-gold-could-it-help-put-a-lid-on-prices-6c354b29

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10:10p ET Thursday, October 16, 2025

What do gold and silver investors do now? Attend the New Orleans conference!

Section: Daily Dispatches

GATA's Bill Murphy and Chris Powell will be there and would love to see you.

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By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Metairie, Louisiana
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
https://goldnewsletter.com/go101525/

I've never seen an opportunity like this in my 40 years in the business.

John Hathaway: No, you haven't missed gold's move yet

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Hathaway
Sprott, Toronto
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Here we strive to answer one of the biggest questions our clients and potential investors have today: Did I miss the gold move?

FT misses the big reason why central bank gold reserve data can't be trusted

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:44a ET Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's Financial Times publishes in its "Alphaville" section a commentary by its writer Toby Nangle calling attention to the dodginess of data offered about central bank gold reserves. The commentary is sarcastically headlined, "Central Banks Have Been Buying a Squillion Tonnes of Gold, Promise":

https://www.ft.com/content/6144f373-f217-423e-b7c4-e872ff323fbe

Italy's tenacious stance on gold pays off as prices soar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Giselda Vagnoni
Reuters
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

ROME -- Italy, whose sovereign assets from bonds to banks have so often been the subject of market crises in recent years, is currently enjoying a windfall as the central bank's vast gold reserves track record-high prices.

The country's bullion stockpile reflects decades of determined safeguarding after it rebuilt reserves plundered by the Nazis in the 1940s, and a stance that has seen it resist calls to sell through repeated crises and as its national debt soared.

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