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Basel III's July 1 application in U.S. will reduce gold market manipulation, Maguire says

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:07p ET Friday, May 2, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

U.S. banks will have a much harder time manipulating gold prices in the futures markets when Basel III regulations start applying to them on July 1, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says in this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program.

Japan says its massive stockpile of U.S. Treasuries is a tool in trade talks

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Leika Kihara and Makiko Yamazaki
Reuters
Friday, May 2, 2025

TOKYO -- Japan could use its $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasuries as a card in trade talks with Washington, its finance minister said today, raising explicitly for the first time its leverage as a massive creditor to the United States.

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Chinese investors pile into gold funds at record pace

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By Leslie Hook and Cheng Leng
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Chinese investors are piling into gold funds at a record rate, as Donald Trump's trade war and fears over a U.S. recession and inflation drive a hunt for haven assets.

Inflows into gold exchange traded funds in China total 70 tonnes — or about $7.4 billion -- so far this month, more than double the previous monthly record, according to the World Gold Council, an industry body.

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Jan Nieuwenhuijs: Can gold reach $16,000?

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By Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Monday, April 28, 2025

As we are in the final stages of a debt cycle that is causing gold to skyrocket, the question arises: How high can gold go?

Comparing the current bull run to the previous two points to a gold run as high as $16,000 per ounce.

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After 15 years, John Paulson is finally winning big on gold

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By Caitlin McCabe and Joe Wallace
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN, Redmond, Washington
Sunday, April 27, 2025

John Paulson made a vast fortune betting against the U.S. housing market in what was dubbed "the greatest trade ever." And his next act -- a years-long wager on gold -- is finally turning out to be a another great trade.

More than a decade and a half after Paulson went big on gold, the billionaire investor has emerged as one of the winners from the record-setting surge in the price of the precious metal.

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Swiss franc's surge sparks bets for return to negative interest rates

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By Emily Herbert, Ian Smith, and Mercedes Ruehl
Financial Times, London
Sunday, April 27, 2025

The Swiss franc has soared to a decade high against the dollar as investors rush for shelter from the global trade turmoil, sparking bets that the country's central bank will have to lower interest rates to zero or below to curb the currency's rise.

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Zimbabwe restarts minting gold coins as metal's price soars

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ray Ndlovu
Bloomberg News
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Zimbabwe's central bank is again issuing gold coins it scrapped 10 months ago, a step it took to ramp up the bullion stockpile used to back up the local currency, the ZiG.

Minting of the "Mosi-Oa-Tunya" 22-carat coins, named after the iconic Victoria Falls, was scrapped in July, central bank Governor John Mushayavanhu told Bloomberg in an interview at the time.

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Help GATA and get a commemorative silver round

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:11a ET Sunday, April 27, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

We are so close to victory now. Gold is all over mainstream financial news organizations now even as they strive not to expose the real reasons for the monetary metal's spectacular rise: the collapse of the derivatives-based gold price suppression system.

Adam Sharp: The art of currency war

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Adam Sharp
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, April 25, 2025

The U.S. dollar remains the king of currencies. For now, at least.

The greenback's share of global foreign exchange reserves sits around 58%. However, back in 2000 the dollar was even more dominant with a 72% market share.

Meanwhile China's yuan only makes up about 2.2% of global forex reserves, but that's up from 1.1% in 2016. The currency's share of global payments is higher at around 4.7%.

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Former Fed governor Warsh blasts U.S. central bank for leaving its lane

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By Francesco Canepa
Reuters
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 25, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, with whom President Donald Trump is reported to have discussed firing U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell and installing him in his place, today unleashed a barrage of criticism of the Fed and argued for fundamental changes to how it operates.

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