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Apple, Nvidia score reprieve with exemptions from Trump tariffs on goods from China

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Debby Wu, Josh Wingrove, and Shawn Donnan
Bloomberg News
Saturday, April 12, 2025

President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers, and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers including Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., even if it proves a temporary one.

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Adam Sharp: Bonds break and bullion breaks out

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By Adam Sharp
Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Friday, April 11, 2025

Global markets have reached a day of reckoning. This has been decades in the making. Now massive changes are sweeping the world.

No, what we're seeing in the markets is not "normal."

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Alabama reaffirms gold and silver as legal tender

Section: Daily Dispatches

From the Sound Money Defense League, Eagle, Idaho
Friday, April 11, 2025

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed Senate Bill 130 into law, reaffirming gold and silver as legal tender. This symbolic victory marks Alabama's latest step toward promoting constitutional sound money in the state.

Sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson and Rep. Jamie Kiel, the Alabama Legal Tender Act recognizes "any refined gold or silver bullion, specie, or coin that has been stamped, marked, or imprinted with its weight and purity" as legal tender in the Yellowhammer State.

Bond analysts debate if China had role in Treasuries yield swings

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ruth Carson and Masaki Kondo
Bloomberg News
via the Times of India, Mumbai
Friday, April 11, 2025

After a week of wild swings in the U.S. bond market, China's holdings of Treasuries are increasingly under scrutiny from analysts around the world.

GoldCore's Jan Skoyles: 'This isn't just a rally. This is a rupture'

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:11p ET Thursday, April 10, 2025

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldCore's Jan Skoyles tonight makes as good a case for protecting yourself with gold as you're likely to see this month, remarking about gold's sharp rise in recent months: "This isn't just a rally. This is a rupture." 

Gold isn't so much going up, Skoyles says, as currencies are going down from excessive borrowing and printing and a change in that trend isn't likely.

Skoyles' commentary is 11 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

Gold's historic race to reclaim its role as the top reserve currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joshua D. Glawson
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The Money Metals quarterly bar chart race on the evolution of global international reserves is out. Recently gold overtook the euro, and soon will be challenging the dollar.

In the video by world-renowned gold analyst at Money Metals, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, we explore world reserve currencies from 1950 to 2024. 

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Brien Lundin: Gold is telling us that it's not just one thing that's wrong but everything

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Metairie, Louisiana
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

It isn't often that you check the markets over your first cup of coffee and find gold up over $100.

But that's precisely what greeted me as I switched on CNBC this morning. (And yes, I am a closed-captioning boomer.)

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Paul Brownstein: Central banks are 'guiding' gold back to the top of the world financial system

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:47p ET Tuesday, April 8, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Paul Brownstein today joins those like the economists Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance --

https://www.gata.org/node/11373

-- and London metals trader Andrew Maguire --

https://www.gata.org/node/23725

-- who argue that the gold price isn't being suppressed by central banks anymore as much as "guided" to its return to an important place in the world financial system.

Babylon Bee: Tragic -- Doomsday prepper dies before the world ends

Section: Daily Dispatches

From the Babylon Bee, Jupiter, Florida
Saturday, April 4, 2025

AVANT PRAIRIE, Texas -- In an ironic twist of fate, family members of a local doomsday prepper announced that he had died before the world ended.

Hank Klepper, a longtime believer that the United States would someday be invaded by China and everyone would be forced to eat rice, was found dead of a heart attack during a wellness check after he failed to accept a Door Dash delivery.

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China's central bank buys gold for fifth month as prices rally

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Yihui Xie
Bloomberg News
Sunday, April 6, 2025

China’s central bank added gold to its reserves for a fifth straight month in March, deepening its bet on the precious metal as a haven asset amid rising global trade and geopolitical turmoil.

Gold held by the People’s Bank of China rose by 0.09 million troy ounces last month, according to data released on Monday. The central bank’s recent run of buying started in November, after a six-month hiatus that followed an 18-month buying spree. ...

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