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More states nixing sales tax on gold and silver bullion
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2024-04-06 09:39 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Danielle Muoio Dunn
Bloomberg News
Friday, April 5, 2024
It's getting a little less expensive across the country to buy investment metals like gold bars and silvercoins, as more states take up measures granting them exemptions from sales tax.
At least 44 states have either fully or partially repealed the sales tax on purchases of gold and silver, according to the Sound Money Defense League, a group funded by online dealer Money Metals Exchange.
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Biggest gold miners are missing out on bullion's record run
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 15:47 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jacob Lorinc
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo Finance, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 5, 2024
The world's biggest gold miners are at risk of missing out on the metal's record run after spending billions of dollars to become the obvious home for bullion-focused investors.
Despite gold hitting all-time highs almost daily, Newmont Corp. shares were down about 6% this year to Thursday's market close, while rival Barrick Gold Corp.'s stock had fallen about 2%.
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How Zimbabwe plans to link its new money supply with gold reserves
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 15:15 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Al Jazeera, Doha, Qatar
Friday, April 5, 2024
...Analysts have questioned whether Harare has enough reserves to adequately back the new currency, and if the latter could suffer from volatility in gold prices.
On Thursday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa inspected the central bank's vaults that [John] Mushayavanhu [the governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank] -- who was appointed earlier this year -- said hold 1.1 tonnes of solid gold.
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Canada's other export powerhouse: gold
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 12:23 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jason Kirby
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Thursday, April 4, 2024
There's gold in them thar exports. Lots of it.
The shiny yellow metal doesn't get nearly the same attention from Canadian policymakers as the energy and automotive sectors do, but exports of gold have soared in recent years and are close to surpassing passenger vehicles to become Canada's second-largest export commodity.
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Zimbabwe pledges to limit its circulating currency value to the value of its gold reserves
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 12:10 Section: Daily DispatchesZimbabwe launches new gold-backed currency, the ZiG
By Singai Nyoka
British Broadcasting Corp.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed currency called ZiG. The name stands for "Zimbabwe Gold."
It is the latest attempt to stabilise an economy that has lurched from crisis to crisis for the past 25 years.
Unveiling the new notes, central bank governor John Mushayavanhu said the ZiG would be structured and set at a market-determined exchange rate.
Alasdair Macleod: Why are gold and bond yields rising together?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 11:36 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
Friday, April 5, 2024
... The answer can only be that the big, mainly Asian wealth funds look at the U.S. government's finances and see deep trouble.
The only way the U.S. government can satisfy its voracious appetite for debt is at higher interest rates and bond yields. And if interest rates go higher, they will crash financial markets, bring about commercial property and corporate insolvencies, and threaten the entire banking system.
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India's central bank builds gold reserves for 'reserve deployment'
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2024-04-05 11:10 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom the Press Trust of India
via Business Standard, New Delhi
Friday, April 5, 2024
Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said today India has been building up gold reserves as part of its forex deployment.
"We are building up gold reserves. That is a part of our reserve deployment," Das told reporters at the customary post-policy review press conference here.
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Asia pushes Western gold price riggers out of the way, Giustra says
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2024-04-04 20:32 Section: Daily Dispatches8:30p ET Thursday, April 4, 2024
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed today by Michelle Makori of Kitco News, gold mining and movie entrepreneur Frank Giustra says the longtime Western suppressors of the gold price seem to have been suddenly pushed out of the way by Asian buyers.
The interview is not quite 10 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
China moves again to restrain public's demand for gold
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2024-03-31 20:25 Section: Daily DispatchesChinese Banks Raise Purchase Thresholds for Gold Products in Warning to Retail Investors
By Xia Yining and Kelsey Cheng
Caixin Global, Beijing
Saturday, March 30, 2024
At least six Chinese banks have raised investment thresholds for their gold savings accounts, in an attempt to warn retail investors of potential risks amid a price rally and growing demand for the safe-haven asset.
Daniel Moss: Only the United States can destroy the dollar
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2024-03-31 20:14 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Daniel Moss
Bloomberg News
via Mint / Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Sunday, March 31, 2024
There's just no getting past the supremacy of the dollar, much as skeptics of American influence wish for it or lonely yen bulls cry for relief.
The greenback has been frequently tipped to retreat, only for it to blow away everything in front of it. This resilience might not last, but as long as it does, it reminds a world once in thrall to China's ascent that the United States is the essential economic force.
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