Daily Dispatches

By Tom Westbrook
Reuters
Sunday, November 29, 2020

SYDNEY -- The U.S. dollar fell to a more than two-year low on Monday and is set to log its largest monthly fall since July, as a combination of vaccine optimism and bets on more monetary easing in the United States drives investors out of the world's reserve currency.

5:14p ET Sunday, November 29, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

11:12a ET Sunday, November 29, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold advocates will rally at noon Tuesday outside the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Australia on Martin Place in Sydney to petition the bank to audit the country's gold reserves, to repatriate its gold reserves from the Bank of England, and to begin accumulating gold reserves.

11:07a ET Sunday, November 29, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With gold and silver due to rebound from their latest smashdown inspired by the U.S. government, you might be getting the impression that the monetary metals are going to have the last laugh on infinite government money and that mining company profit margins, already getting strong, will get stronger.

Hong Kong's Leader Piles Up Cash at Home After U.S. Sanctions

From Reuters
Sunday, November 29, 2020

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she has to pile up cash at home as she has been unable to open a bank account in the global financial centre since Washington sanctioned her shortly after Beijing imposed a national security law on the city.

By Eduardo Baptiste
South China Morning News, Hong Kong
Sunday, November 29, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3111824/canada-extends...

Canada has extended a national security review of a US$165 million Chinese takeover of a Canadian gold mining company operating in the country's strategic far north.

11:20p ET Saturday, November 28, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, an economist and author, this week discussed both gold price manipulation and presidential election vote manipulation with Daniela Cambone in an interview for Stansberry Research. The interview is 24 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

8:04p ET Saturday, November 28, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

For some hours now the internet site Wall Street on Parade, operated by the indefatigable financial journalists Pam and Russ Martens, has appeared to be under a distributed denial of service attack:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/denial-service-attack-dos.asp

By Asli Kandemir and Ugur Yilmaz
Bloomberg News
Thursday, November 26, 2020

A year of crisis for the lira has kept Turks buying gold at a record pace. Now the appetite for more bullion risks becoming a drag on the currency just as a rally struggles to regain momentum.

11:47a ET Saturday, November 28, 2020

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With gold and silver due to rebound from their latest smashdown inspired by the U.S. government, you might be getting the impression that the monetary metals are going to have the last laugh on infinite government money and that mining company profit margins, already getting strong, will get stronger.