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Can Africa seize its moment in the race for critical minerals?
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-09-13 09:53 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Andy Home
Reuters
via China Global South Project, Johannesburg, South Africa
Friday, September 11, 2026
The intensifying global competition for critical minerals could be a transformative moment for Africa.
The continent is already a major producer of energy transition metals such as copper, cobalt, and manganese but is nowhere near its full potential.
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Ed Steer: The precious metals equities get smashed again
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-09-13 09:13 Section: Daily Dispatches9:12a ET Sunday, September 13, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "The Precious Metals Equities Get Smashed Again" and is posted in the clear at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:
https://silverseek.com/article/precious-metal-equities-get-smashed-again
Alasdair Macleod: A credit crisis is unfolding
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-09-11 12:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, September 11, 2026
Usually, credit crises are in the private sector. Today it's a global government funding crisis from which there's no rescue. Gold and silver are the escape route.
This week brought the beginning of a government financing train wreck to public attention, affecting all G7 nations. That it is only the start of a crisis is the key point, as our oft-repeated chart below has been clearly demonstrating since the 40-year downtrend in bond yields was comprehensively broken in 2022.
More gold and silver investment money is diverted from metal to the imaginary
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-09-10 22:44 Section: Daily DispatchesKalshi Launches 'Perps' for Gold and Silver Following CFTC Approval, Expanding Futures Offerings
By Davis Giangiulio
CNBC, New York
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Kalshi has won approval to list perpetual futures tied to precious metals gold and silver in the U.S., in the latest development as the company seeks to grow its trading offerings beyond prediction markets.
The listing was originally filed in July. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission -- which regulates derivatives contracts -- approved the listing of the perpetuals this week.
Chinese miner takes Belt and Road to Papua New Guinea with $453 million gold deal
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-09-10 22:34 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Peter Ker
Australian Financial Review, Sydney
Thursday, September 10, 2026
A Chinese state-backed resources group has cited Beijing's flagship Belt and Road infrastructure and influence initiative as the reason it is spending more than $1 billion acquiring mines and port projects across three islands in Papua New Guinea, largely from Australian companies.
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Jim Rickards: China prepares for currency wars
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-09-10 18:50 Section: Daily DispatchesBy James Rickards
The Daily Reckoning, Baltimore
Thursday, September 10, 2026
That China has a large quantity of gold in its official reserve position is not news. China's gold reserves have been rising substantially since 2009.
At that time, Chinas official gold reserves were 1,054 metric tonnes (mt). Today those reserves stand at approximately 2,366 mt, an increase of about 124%. But that does not tell the whole story.
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Brien Lundin: Gold and bonds are warning us
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-09-10 14:03 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Brien Lundin
Gold Newsletter / Golden Opportunities
Metairie, Louisiana
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
It might seem like everyone believes Kevin Warsh when he says he won't hesitate to raise rates.
Well, everyone except one subset of investors: Those who keep buying gold.
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Steer reviews desperate interventions; Maguire cites battle of 'whales'
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-09-10 10:35 Section: Daily Dispatches10:37a ET Thursday, September 10, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA board member Ed Steer, publisher of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest, interviewed this week by the CapitalCosm channel at YouTube, discusses the desperate government interventions to support government currencies and bonds and suppress the prices of the monetary metals and commodities. The interview is 45 minutes long and can be viewed at the Capital Cosm channel at YouTube here:
BIS gold swaps rose in August along with double counting and seizure concerns
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2026-09-09 19:56 Section: Daily Dispatches7:55p ET Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's consultant about the Bank for International Settlements, Robert Lambourne, reports today that the bank's gold swaps are not going away -- that the bank's August statement of account, published this week --
https://www.bis.org/publications/statement-account-31-august-2026.pdf
-- indicates that its gold swaps increased by 10 tonnes during the month and now stand at 141 tonnes.
Treasury secretary boasts about rigging Japanese yen market
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2026-09-09 17:02 Section: Daily DispatchesThey wouldn't be rigging any other markets, would they?
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'I Am the House Now': Bessent Warns Currency Traders Not to Bet Against Yen
By Emily Herbert, Ian Smith, and Ramsay Hodgson
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has warned traders not to bet against the yen, saying "I am the house now" following his recent intervention to support the Japanese currency.
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