GOLD: $1194.60 DOWN $0.80 (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSINGS)
Silver: $14.16 UP 2 CENTS (COMEX TO COMEX CLOSING)
Closing access prices:
Gold $1195.80
silver: $14.18
For comex gold:
SEPT/
And now Sept:
NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED TODAY FOR SEPT CONTRACT: 28 NOTICE(S) FOR 2800 oz
Total number of notices filed so far for Sept: 526 for 52600 (1.636 tonnes)
For silver:
Sept
347 NOTICE(S) FILED TODAY FOR
1,735,000 OZ/
Total number of notices filed so far this month: 5601 for 28,005,000 oz
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Bitcoin: BID $6254/OFFER $6341: DOWN $14(morning)
Bitcoin: BID/ $6262/offer $6347: DOWN $115(CLOSING/5 PM)
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First Shanghai gold fix comes at 10 pm est
The second Shanghai gold fix: 2:15 pm
First Shanghai gold fix gold: 10 pm est: $1201.30
NY price at the same time:$1194.90
PREMIUM TO NY SPOT: $6.40
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Second gold fix early this morning: $ 1199.71
USA gold at the exact same time:$1193.50
PREMIUM TO NY SPOT: $4.76
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China is controlling the gold market
WE WILL NOT PROVIDE LONDON FIXES AS THEY ARE NOT ACCURATE AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME FRAME.
Let us have a look at the data for today
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In silver, the total OPEN INTEREST FELL BY A SMALL 840 CONTRACTS FROM 210,462 DOWN TO 209,945 WITH FRIDAY’S TINY 2 CENT FALL IN SILVER PRICING AT THE COMEX. TODAY WE MOVED CONSIDERABLY FURTHER AWAY FROM LAST MONTH’S RECORD SETTING OPEN INTEREST OF 244,196 CONTRACTS.
WE HAVE ALSO WITNESSED A LARGE AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL METAL STAND FOR COMEX DELIVERY(WELL OVER 30 MILLION OZ AT THE COMEX FOR JULY , 6 MILLION OZ FOR AUGUST AND NOW JUST LESS THAN 31 MILLION OZ STANDING IN SEPTEMBER. AS WELL WE ARE WITNESSING CONSIDERABLE LONGS PACKING THEIR BAGS AND MIGRATING OVER TO LONDON IN GREATER NUMBERS IN THE FORM OF EFP’S. WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT WE HAD HUMONGOUS SIZED NUMBER OF COMEX LONGS TRANSFERRING THEIR CONTRACTS TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP:
0 EFP’S FOR SEPT. 3419 EFP’S FOR DECEMBER AND ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS AND THEREFORE TOTAL ISSUANCE: OF 3419 CONTRACTS. WITH THE TRANSFER OF 3419 CONTRACTS, WHAT THE CME IS STATING IS THAT THERE IS NO SILVER (OR GOLD) TO BE DELIVERED UPON AT THE COMEX AS THEY MUST EXPORT THEIR OBLIGATION TO LONDON. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE CAN BE A DELAY OF 24-48 HRS IN THE ISSUING OF EFP’S. THE 3419 EFP CONTRACTS TRANSLATES INTO 17.09MILLION OZ ACCOMPANYING:
1.THE 2 CENT FALL IN SILVER PRICE AT THE COMEX AND
2. THE STRONG AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES WHICH STOOD FOR THE JUNE/2018 COMEX DELIVERY MONTH. (5.420 MILLION OZ); 30.370 MILLION OZ STANDING FOR DELIVERY IN JULY, FOR AUGUST: 6.065 MILLION OZ AND NOW 30.265 MILLION OZ STANDING SO FAR IN SEPT.
ACCUMULATION FOR EFP’S/SILVER/J.P.MORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES, / STARTING FROM FIRST DAY NOTICE/FOR MONTH OF SEPT:
15,445 CONTRACTS (FOR 5 TRADING DAYS TOTAL 15,445 CONTRACTS) OR 77.225 MILLION OZ: (AVERAGE PER DAY: 3089 CONTRACTS OR 15.445 MILLION OZ/DAY)
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO THE HUGE SUPPLY THIS MONTH IN SILVER: SO FAR THIS MONTH OF SEPT: 77.225 MILLION PAPER OZ HAVE MORPHED OVER TO LONDON. THIS REPRESENTS AROUND 11.03% OF ANNUAL GLOBAL PRODUCTION (EX CHINA EX RUSSIA)* JUNE’S 345.43 MILLION OZ IS THE SECOND HIGHEST RECORDED ISSUANCE OF EFP’S AND IT FOLLOWED THE RECORD SET IN APRIL 2018 OF 385.75 MILLION OZ.
ACCUMULATION IN YEAR 2018 TO DATE SILVER EFP’S: 2,115.05 MILLION OZ.
ACCUMULATION FOR JAN 2018: 236.879 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR FEB 2018: 244.95 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR MARCH 2018: 236.67 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR APRIL 2018: 385.75 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR MAY 2018: 210.05 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR JUNE 2018: 345.43 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR JULY 2018: 172.84 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR AUGUST 2018: 205.23 MILLION OZ.
RESULT: WE HAD A SMALL SIZED DECREASE IN COMEX OI SILVER COMEX CONTRACTS OF 840 WITH THE 2 CENT FALL IN SILVER PRICING AT THE COMEX YESTERDAY. THE CME NOTIFIED US THAT WE HAD A HUMONGOUS SIZED EFP ISSUANCE OF 3419 CONTRACTS WHICH EXITED OUT OF THE SILVER COMEX AND TRANSFERRED THEIR OI TO LONDON AS FORWARDS. SPECULATORS CONTINUED THEIR INTEREST IN ATTACKING THE SILVER COMEX FOR PHYSICAL SILVER (SEE COMEX DATA) .
TODAY WE GAINED A STRONG SIZED: 2579 TOTAL OI CONTRACTS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES:
i.e 3419 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS HEADED FOR LONDON (EFP’s) TOGETHER WITH A DECREASE OF 840 OI COMEX CONTRACTS. AND ALL OF THIS GAIN IN DEMAND HAPPENED WITH A SMALL 2 CENT LOSS IN PRICE OF SILVER AND A CLOSING PRICE OF $14.14 WITH RESPECT TO FRIDAY’S TRADING. YET WE HAD A GIGANTIC AMOUNT OF SILVER STANDING AT THE COMEX FOR DELIVERY IN THE BIG JULY DELIVERY MONTH OF SLIGHTLY OVER 30 MILLION OZ, IN AUGUST ANOTHER BIG 6.065 MILLION OZ IN A NON ACTIVE MONTH AND NOW IN SEPTEMBER AN INITIAL MONSTROUS 30.265 MILLION OZ OF SILVER STANDING FOR DELIVERY… NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE HUGE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL OUNCES STANDING FOR SILVER THESE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
In ounces AT THE COMEX, the OI is still represented by OVER 1 BILLION oz i.e. 1.048 MILLION OZ TO BE EXACT or 150% of annual global silver production (ex Russia & ex China).
FOR THE NEW FRONT AUGUST MONTH/ THEY FILED AT THE COMEX: 347 NOTICE(S) FOR 1,735,000 OZ OF SILVER
IN SILVER,PRIOR TO TODAY, WE SET THE NEW COMEX RECORD OF OPEN INTEREST AT 243,411 CONTRACTS ON APRIL 9.2018. AND AGAIN THIS HAS BEEN SET WITH A LOW PRICE OF $16.51.
AND NOW WE RECORD FOR POSTERITY ANOTHER ALL TIME RECORD OPEN INTEREST AT THE COMEX OF 244.,196 CONTRACTS ON AUGUST 22/2018 AND AGAIN WHEN THIS RECORD WAS SET, THE PRICE OF SILVER WAS $14.78 AND LOWER IN PRICE THAN PREVIOUS RECORDS.
ON THE DEMAND SIDE WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING:
- HUGE AMOUNTS OF SILVER STANDING FOR DELIVERY (MARCH/2018: 27 MILLION OZ , APRIL/2018 : 2.485 MILLION OZ MAY: 36.285 MILLION OZ ; JUNE/2018 (5.420 MILLION OZ) , JULY 2018 FINAL AMOUNT STANDING: 30.370 MILLION OZ ) FOR AUGUST 6.065 MILLION OZ. AND NOW SEPT: AN INITIAL HUGE 30.265 MILLION OZ.
- HUGE RECORD OPEN INTEREST IN SILVER 243,411 CONTRACTS (OR 1.217 BILLION OZ/ SET APRIL 9/2018) AND NOW AUGUST 22/2018: 244,196 CONTRACTS, WITH A SILVER PRICE OF $14.78.
- HUGE ANNUAL EFP’S ISSUANCE EQUAL TO 2.9 BILLION OZ OR 400% OF SILVER ANNUAL PRODUCTION/2017
- RECORD SETTING EFP ISSUANCE FOR ANY MONTH IN SILVER; APRIL/2018/ 385.75 MILLION OZ/ AND THE SECOND HIGHEST RECORDED EFP ISSUANCE JUNE 2018 345.43 MILLION OZ
AND YET, WITH THE EXTREMELY HIGH EFP ISSUANCE, WE HAVE A CONTINUAL LOW PRICE OF SILVER DESPITE THE ABOVE HUGE DEMAND. TO ME THE ONLY ANSWER IS THAT WE HAVE SOVEREIGN (CHINA) WHO IS ENDEAVOURING TO GOBBLE UP ALL AVAILABLE PHYSICAL SILVER NO MATTER WHERE, EXACTLY WHAT J.P.MORGAN IS DOING. AND IT IS MY BELIEF THAT J.P.MORGAN IS HOLDING ITS SILVER FOR ITS BENEFICIAL OWNER..THE USA GOVERNMENT WHO IN TURN IS HOLDING THAT SILVER FOR CHINA.(FOR A SILVER LOAN REPAYMENT).
IN GOLD, THE OPEN INTEREST FELL BY A FAIR SIZED 2583 CONTRACTS UP TO 467.260 WITH THE LOSS IN THE COMEX GOLD PRICE/YESTERDAY’S TRADING (A FALL IN PRICE OF $3.75). THE CME RELEASED THE DATA FOR EFP ISSUANCE AND IT TOTALED A HUMONGOUS SIZED 13,723 CONTRACTS:
OCTOBER HAD 0 EFP’S ISSUED AND, DECEMBER HAD AN ISSUANCE OF 13,723 CONTACTS AND ALL OTHER MONTHS ZERO. The NEW COMEX OI for the gold complex rests at 467.260. ALSO REMEMBER THAT THERE WILL BE A DELAY IN THE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S. THE BANKERS REMOVE LONG POSITIONS OF COMEX GOLD IMMEDIATELY. THEN THEY ORCHESTRATE THEIR PRIVATE EFP DEAL WITH THE LONGS AND THAT COULD TAKE AN ADDITIONAL, 48 HRS SO WE GENERALLY DO NOT GET A MATCH WITH RESPECT TO DEPARTING COMEX LONGS AND NEW EFP LONG TRANSFERS. . EVEN THOUGH THE BANKERS ISSUED THESE MONSTROUS EFPS, THE OBLIGATION STILL RESTS WITH THE BANKERS TO SUPPLY METAL BUT IT TRANSFERS THE RISK TO A LONDON BANKER OBLIGATION AND NOT A NEW YORK COMEX OBLIGATION. LONGS RECEIVE A FIAT BONUS TOGETHER WITH A LONG LONDON FORWARD. THUS, BY THESE ACTIONS, THE BANKERS AT THE COMEX HAVE JUST STATED THAT THEY HAVE NO APPRECIABLE METAL!! THIS IS A MASSIVE FRAUD: THEY CANNOT SUPPLY ANY METAL TO OUR COMEX LONGS BUT THEY ARE QUITE WILLING TO SUPPLY MASSIVE NON BACKED GOLD (AND SILVER) PAPER KNOWING THAT THEY HAVE NO METAL TO SATISFY OUR LONGS. LONDON IS NOW SEVERELY BACKWARD IN BOTH GOLD AND SILVER AND WE ARE WITNESSING DELAYS IN ACTUAL DELIVERIES.
IN ESSENCE WE HAVE AN VERY STRONG SIZED OI GAIN IN TOTAL CONTRACTS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES OF 11,140 CONTRACTS: 2583 OI CONTRACTS DECREASED AT THE COMEX AND 13,723 EFP OI CONTRACTS WHICH NAVIGATED OVER TO LONDON. THUS TOTAL OI GAIN: 11,140 CONTRACTS OR 1,114,000 OZ = 34.65 TONNES. AND ALL OF THIS HUGE DEMAND OCCURRED WITH A FALL IN THE PRICE OF GOLD/ FRIDAY TO THE TUNE OF $3.75???
FRIDAY, WE HAD 4749 EFP’S ISSUED.
ACCUMULATION OF EFP’S GOLD AT J.P. MORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES: (EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL) FOR THE MONTH OF SEPT : 43,757 CONTRACTS OR 4,375,700 OZ OR 136.10 TONNES (5 TRADING DAYS AND THUS AVERAGING: 8752 EFP CONTRACTS PER TRADING DAY OR 875,200 OZ/ TRADING DAY),,
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO THE HUGE SIZE OF THESE EFP TRANSFERS : THIS MONTH IN 5 TRADING DAYS IN TONNES: 136.10 TONNES
TOTAL ANNUAL GOLD PRODUCTION, 2017, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EX CHINA EX RUSSIA: 2555 TONNES
THUS EFP TRANSFERS REPRESENTS 136.10/2550 x 100% TONNES = 5.33% OF GLOBAL ANNUAL PRODUCTION SO FAR IN JULY ALONE.***
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S YEAR 2018 TO DATE: 5,333.04* TONNES *SURPASSED ANNUAL PROD’N
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR JANUARY 2018: 653.22 TONNES (21 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR FEBRUARY 2018: 649.45 TONNES (20 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR MARCH 2018: 741.89 TONNES (22 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR APRIL 2018: 713.84 TONNES (21 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR MAY 2018: 693.80 TONNES ( 22 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP FOR JUNE 2018 650.71 TONNES (21 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP FOR JULY 2018 605.5 TONNES (21 TRADING DAYS)
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP FOR AUG. 2018 488.54 TONNES (23 TRADING DAYS)
WHAT IS ALARMING TO ME, ACCORDING TO OUR LONDON EXPERT ANDREW MAGUIRE IS THAT THESE EFP’S ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO WHAT ARE CALLED SERIAL FORWARD CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE LESS THAN 14 DAYS. ANYTHING GREATER THAN 14 DAYS, THESE MUST BE RECORDED AND SENT TO THE COMPTROLLER, GREAT BRITAIN TO MONITOR RISK TO THE BANKING SYSTEM. IF THIS IS INDEED TRUE, THEN THIS IS A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AS WE NOW WITNESS A MONSTROUS TOTAL EFP’S ISSUANCE AS IT HEADS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.
Result: A FAIR SIZED DECREASE IN OI AT THE COMEX OF 2583 WITH THE LOSS IN PRICING ($3.75 THAT GOLD UNDERTOOK FRIDAY) // . WE ALSO HAD A HUMONGOUS NUMBER OF COMEX LONG TRANSFERRING TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE: 13,723 CONTRACTS AS THESE HAVE ALREADY BEEN NEGOTIATED AND CONFIRMED. THERE OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MUCH PHYSICAL GOLD AT THE COMEX. I GUESS IT EXPLAINS THE HUGE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S…THERE IS HARDLY ANY GOLD PRESENT AT THE GOLD COMEX FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES. IF YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE 13,723 EFP CONTRACTS ISSUED, WE HAD A GAIN OF 11,140 CONTRACTS IN TOTAL OPEN INTEREST ON THE TWO EXCHANGES:
13,723 CONTRACTS MOVE TO LONDON AND 2583 CONTRACTS DECREASED AT THE COMEX. (in tonnes, the GAIN in total oi equates to 34.65 TONNES). ..AND THIS HUGE DEMAND OCCURRED DESPITE THE FALL OF $3.75 IN FRIDAY’S TRADING AT THE COMEX.
we had: 28 notice(s) filed upon for 2800 oz of gold at the comex.
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With respect to our two criminal funds, the GLD and the SLV:
GLD...
WITH GOLD DOWN $0.80 TODAY: /
ANOTHER BIG CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.44 TONNES
/GLD INVENTORY 745.44 TONNES
Inventory rests tonight: 745.44 tonnes.
TO ALL INVESTORS THINKING OF BUYING GOLD THROUGH THE GLD ROUTE: YOU ARE MAKING A TERRIBLE MISTAKE AS THE CROOKS ARE USING WHATEVER GOLD COMES IN TO ATTACK BY SELLING THAT GOLD. IT SURE SEEMS TO ME THAT THE GOLD OBLIGATIONS AT THE GLD EXCEED THEIR INVENTORY
SLV/
WITH SILVER DOWN 2 CENTS TODAY
ANOTHER REAL SHOCKER: DESPITE GLD LOSING GOLD
WE HAD A GOOD DEPOSIT OF: 940,000 OZ OF SILVER INTO THE SLV
/INVENTORY RESTS AT 332.717 MILLION OZ.
NOTE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GLD AND SLV: THE CROOKS CAN RAID GOLD BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE SOME PHYSICAL. THEY DO NOT RAID SILVER PROBABLY BECAUSE THERE IS NO REAL SILVER INVENTORIES BEHIND THEM
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First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:
1. Today, we had the open interest in SILVER FELL BY A SMALL SIZED 840 CONTRACTS from 210,462 UP TO 209,622 AND MOVING A LITTLE FURTHER FROM THE NEW COMEX RECORD SET LAST MONTH AT 244,196 WITH A SILVER PRICE OF $14.78/(AUGUST 22/2018)..THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS SET ON APRIL 9/2018 AT 243,411 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS WITH THE SILVER PRICE AT THAT DAY: $16.53). AND PREVIOUS TO THAT, THE RECORD WAS ESTABLISHED AT: 234,787 CONTRACTS, SET ON APRIL 21.2017 OVER 1 1/3 YEARS AGO. THE PRICE OF SILVER ON THAT DAY: $17.89. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE RECORD HIGH OPEN INTERESTS IN SILVER ACCOMPANIED BY A CONTINUAL LOWER PRICE WHEN THAT RECORD WAS SET…..
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OUR CUSTOMARY MIGRATION OF COMEX LONGS CONTINUE TO MORPH INTO LONDON FORWARDS AS OUR BANKERS USED THEIR EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO ISSUE:
0 EFP CONTRACTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 3419 CONTRACTS FOR DECEMBER AND AND ALL OTHER MONTHS: ZERO. TOTAL EFP ISSUANCE: 3419 CONTRACTS . EFP’S GIVE OUR COMEX LONGS A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON. IF WE TAKE THE OI LOSS AT THE COMEX OF 840 CONTRACTS TO THE 3419 OI TRANSFERRED TO LONDON THROUGH EFP’S, WE OBTAIN A NET GAIN OF 2579 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS. THUS IN OUNCES, THE GAIN ON THE TWO EXCHANGES: 12.895 MILLION OZ!!! AND YET WE ALSO HAVE A STRONG DEMAND FOR PHYSICAL AS WE WITNESSED A FINAL STANDING OF GREATER THAN 30 MILLION OZ FOR JULY, A STRONG 6.065 MILLION OZ FOR AUGUST.. AND NOW A HUGE 30.265 MILLION OZ INITIALLY STAND FOR SILVER IN SEPTEMBER….
RESULT: A SMALL SIZED DECREASE IN SILVER OI AT THE COMEX WITH THE 2 CENT PRICING LOSS THAT SILVER UNDERTOOK IN PRICING YESTERDAY. BUT WE ALSO HAD A GOOD SIZED 3419 EFP’S ISSUED TRANSFERRING COMEX LONGS OVER TO LONDON. TOGETHER WITH THE STRONG SIZED AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES STANDING FOR SEPTEMBER, DEMAND FOR PHYSICAL SILVER CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY AS WE WITNESS SEVERE BACKWARDATION IN SILVER IN LONDON.
(report Harvey)
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2.a) The Shanghai and London gold fix report
(Harvey)
2 b) Gold/silver trading overnight Europe, Goldcore
(Mark O’Byrne/zerohedge
and in NY: Bloomberg
3. ASIAN AFFAIRS
i) MONDAY MORNING/ SUNDAY NIGHT: Shanghai closed DOWN 32.82 POINTS OR 1.21% /Hang Sang CLOSED DOWN 360.05 POINTS OR 1.33%/ / The Nikkei closed UP 66.03 POINTS OR 0.30%/Australia’s all ordinaires CLOSED DOWN 0.04% /Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) closed DOWN at 6.8631 AS POBC RESUMES ITS HUGE DEVALUATION /DELEGATION COMING TO THE USA TO SEE TRUMP IN NOVEMBER/Oil UP to 68.01 dollars per barrel for WTI and 77.14 for Brent. Stocks in Europe OPENED GREEN //. ONSHORE YUAN CLOSED DOWN AT 6.8631 AGAINST THE DOLLAR. OFFSHORE YUAN CLOSED DOWN ON THE DOLLAR AT 6.8715: HUGE DEVALUATION/PAST SEVERAL DAYS RESUMES// TRADE TALKS NOT DOING TOO GOOD : /ONSHORE YUAN TRADING STRONGER AGAINST OFFSHORE YUAN/ONSHORE YUAN TRADING WEAKER AGAINST USA DOLLAR/OFFSHORE YUAN TRADING WEAKER AGAINST THE DOLLAR /CHINA RETALIATES WITH TARIFFS/ TRUMP RESPONDS TO NEW TARIFFS AND IT NOW A FULL TRADE WAR COMMENCED
3A/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA
i)North Korea/South Korea/USA/
b) REPORT ON JAPAN
3 C/ CHINA
i)This is occurring not at the best time for China has its trade surplus hits a record high. Trump is on the record to initiate another 267 billion in tariffs and that would put it at exactly all of Chinese exports to the USA
( zerohedge)
ii)This will definitely not last. China reports that inflation last month came in red hot at 2.3% much higher than the consensus 2.1%.The fall in the yuan certainly was a major contributing factor in the rise in inflation. However China is slowing down so this will probably not last, as commodity prices are well down. Also China’s all important credit impulse is also declining which lends to the theory that inflation will not last inside China.
(courtesy zerohedge)
4/EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
i)Our resident expert on European affairs explains why Europe’s immigration is just not working. Non indigenous folks have a much higher fertility rate (5) that whites but on balance they are receiving a much greater share of social benefits. This will explain the increasing population but a decreasing GDP
( GEFIRA)
ii)UK
THE pound rises after Barnier states that a Brexit deal is realistic in the next 60 to 8 weeks
(courtesy zerohedge)
5. RUSSIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
i)Syria/USA/Russia
USA is preparing military options if the Syrians “use” chemical weapons. No doubt that the rebels will “stage” the event in order for the uSA/France to enter the conflict
( zerohedge)
ii b)Seems that the USA used banned chemicals in an attack on the town of Hajin, in Idlib province(courtesy zerohedge)
militants attack the headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Corporation responsible for exporting 70% of the countries oil
This will no doubt propel oil higher in price
( zerohedge)
6. GLOBAL ISSUES
7. OIL ISSUES
8 EMERGING MARKET ISSUES
9. PHYSICAL MARKETS
i)We reported to you last week, that citizens from India have been smuggling gold into the country due to the high taxes. Now it is Japan’s turn to smuggle due to impending increase in sales taxes
( Royal Hall/Daily Coin)
ii)John Authers fails to explain why the press cannot talk about gold price rigging. They surely talk about other rigging but not gold/silver
( Authers/London’s Financial times)
iii)Bill Murphy discusses the gold cartel with Portfolio Wealth Global
( GATA)
10. USA stories which will influence the price of gold/silver)
i)Market trading /GOLD/MARKET MOVERS:
MARKET TRADING
c)When will the USA finally feel the pain from the trade wars? Deutsche bank answers: the moment the uSA initiates its next 200 billion dollars worth of tariffs on China.
( zerohedge)
“The fuse has been lit on debt bombs sitting on the balance sheets of insolvent European banks.”
and
“And all of that capital that flowed out of the U.S. and Europe over the past decade searching for yield in a world where risk was suppressed to save the banks is coming back like a Tsunami”
( Tom Luongo)
iv)SWAMP STORIES
a)I feel sorry for this individual. The Democrats set him up and he now has a felony as he must serve 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI.
( zerohedge)
b)The Genesis of the Russian collusion story laid out in full
( zerohedge)
I may be wrong but I do not think it is a senior White House Official but a deep stater like Brennan or the NYTimes themselves.
let us see how this plays out..
( zerohedge)
d)Michael Cohen wants his 130,000 returned. I guess there is no case..so what is next?
( zerohedge)
e)Supposedly the list is narrowed down to a few individuals. Is somebody being set up as a patsy (e.g. Sessions)
(c zerohedge)
f)the biggy: Trump is set to declassify the key Bruce Ohr documents along with the Fisa court Carter page stuff as early as this week
( zerohedge)
Let us head over to the comex:
The next active delivery month after August for silver is September and here the OI FELL by 311 contracts DOWN to 799.
We had 295 notices filed on yesterday so we lost 16 number of contracts or 80,000 oz will not stand at the comex as these guys accepted a fiat bonus on top of a London based forwards. For the past 17 months starting in April 2017, we have been witnessing on a constant basis queue jumping as the commercials seek physical silver immediately after first day notice. Today queue jumping has taken a little holiday.
October lost 45 contracts to stand at 630. November saw a gain of 17 contracts to stand at 31.
ON FIRST DAY NOTICE FOR THE SEPT/2017 SILVER CONTRACT MONTH: 20.515 MILLION OZ STOOD FOR DELIVERY AND BY MONTH’S END: A HUGE 32.875 MILLION OZ WAS THE FINAL STANDING AS WE WERE WELL INTO THE PHENOMENON OF QUEUE JUMPING IN SILVER. THUS WE ARE WAY AHEAD OF LAST YEAR AS ALREADY WE HAVE 30.265 MILLION OZ OF SILVER INITIALLY STAND. WE WILL NO DOUBT PASS LAST YEAR’S TOTAL OF 32.875 MILLION OZ ONCE SEPTEMBER ENDS AS THE BANKS SCRAMBLE FOR PHYSICAL SILVER.
First India, Now Japan – Gold Smuggling On The Rise
Authored by Rory Hall via The Daily Coin,
We have known, really since the beginning of time, that India has a healthy gold smuggling crime racket.
Now we learn that Japan, too, has gold smuggling operations and they are on the rise in light of rising taxes. If these governments would stop stealing everything from the people and leave them enough to live on, the gold smugglers would dry up and go away. But, idiot government officials will remain idiot government officials and continue pushing for more and more taxes creating a larger and larger black market for gold.
Gold is on the rise everywhere but western developed economies. The eastern economies are acquiring gold, literally, by hook or by crook.
As the Asian Nikkei Review recently reported:
Another potential bonanza for organized crime unless loopholes closed
TOKYO — As Japan prepares to raise the consumption tax for the first time in half a decade next year, the Ministry of Finance worries that gold smuggling will also get a boost.
When the tax was last increased in 2014, to 8% from 5%, smuggling of the precious metal jumped as criminal organizations quickly realized how to game the system for their own enrichment.
The scheme works like this:
- Procure gold in places like Hong Kong, which does not tax it.
- Have mules hide it in their luggage and blend in with tourists, traveling to Japan to sell to stores that buy gold from the public.
- The stores pay for both the gold itself and the consumption tax.
- The tax component becomes pure profit.
And with the consumption tax set to rise to 10% in October 2019, margins will grow even fatter.
Japan has an unflattering reputation as a ‘go-to place’ for gold smugglers. In 2017, there were 1,347 cases discovered by law enforcement – 112 times the tally from 2013, the year before the last tax hike.
Seized gold last year amounted to 6,236 kg, a 47-fold increase.
“It looks like the break-even point for smugglers is between 5 and 8%,” a government source said of the sudden spike.
Will this trend continue? Will the smugglers stop having their wares stolen by the authorities? Are they going to come up with better ways to get the gold into Japan? Losing 6,236 kilos of gold is a lot of gold, a massive amount of fiat down the drain.
Are the Japanese citizens reading the “tea leaves” regarding the BRI and other eastern economic alliances’ and the potential impact on currencies in the not too distant future? Westerners do not begin hoarding gold, acquiring gold and even recognizing that gold exist because the government raises taxes or there is some type of monetary change. No, westerners simply roll over and proclaim – “thank you, sir, may I have another?”
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John Authers fails to explain why the press cannot talk about gold price rigging. They surely talk about other rigging but not gold/silver
(courtesy Authers/London’s Financial times)
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Financial Times explains why it can’t report gold price rigging
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2018-09-09 14:26. Section: Daily Dispatches
It’s the cornerstone of the rigging of all markets, and exposing it would overthrow the world financial system.
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In a Crisis, Sometimes You Don’t Tell the Whole Story
By John Authers
Financial Times, London
Friday, September 7, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/1fcb4d60-b1df-11e8-99ca-68cf89602132
It is time to admit that I once deliberately withheld important information from readers. It was 10 years ago, the financial crisis was at its worst, and I think I did the right thing. But a decade on from the 2008 crisis (our front pages from the period are at ft.com/financialcrisis), I need to discuss it.
The moment came on September 17, two days after Lehman declared bankruptcy. That Wednesday was — for me — the scariest day of the crisis, when world finance came closest to all-out collapse. But I did not write as much in the Financial Times.
Two critical news items had broken on Tuesday night. First, AIG received an $8.5 billion bailout. It needed it because it had to pay up for credit default swap transactions it had guaranteed. Without those guarantees, bonds sitting on banks’ balance sheets and assumed to be of no risk would instead be deemed worthless. That would instantly render many of the banks holding them technically insolvent. A failure of AIG, many believed, would mean an instantaneous collapse of the European banking system, which held much impaired US credit.
That the US had coughed up so much money suggested that AIG’s guarantees could not be trusted — so what collateral could possibly be good for a loan?
Meanwhile, the Reserve Fund, the largest US independent money market mutual fund, announced a loss on its holdings of Lehman bonds. As a result, its price would fall below $1 per share.
This was terrifying because money market funds, which hold short-term bonds, were treated as guaranteed. No money market fund had ever “broken the buck” (or fallen below a price of $1).
The funds were vital customers for short-term debt. Without them, how could banks or big companies fund themselves? Investors rushed to pull money out of money funds, while the funds’ managers dumped corporate bonds for the safety of Treasury bills.
This was a run on the bank. The solvency of Wall Street’s biggest banks was in question. Amid chaos, the yield on Treasury bills fell to its lowest since Pearl Harbor. Desperate people needed safety; interest rates did not matter.
Unlike 2007’s run on Northern Rock in the UK, none of this was visible. Queues do not form around the block to buy T-bills. But Wall Streeters I spoke to thought the banking system was at risk of failing.
As it happened, I had a lot of cash in my bank account, at Citibank. I was above the limit covered by US deposit insurance, so if Citi went bust, a once inconceivable event that I could now imagine, I would lose money for good.
At lunch hour I headed to Citi, planning to take out half my money and put it into an account at the Chase branch next door. That would double the money that I had insured.
We were in midtown Manhattan, surrounded by investment banking offices. At Citi, I found a long queue, all well-dressed Wall Streeters. They were doing the same as me. Next door, Chase was also full of anxious-looking bankers.
Once I reached the relationship officer, who was great, she told me that she and her opposite number at Chase had agreed a plan of action. I need not open an account at another bank.
Using bullet points, she asked if I was married, and had children. Then she opened accounts for each of my children in trust, and a joint account with my wife. In just a few minutes I had quadrupled my deposit insurance coverage. I was now exposed to Uncle Sam, not Citi. With a smile she told me she had been doing this all morning. Neither she nor her friend at Chase had ever had requests to do this until that week.
I was finding it a little hard to breathe. There was a bank run happening, in New York’s financial district. The people panicking were the Wall Streeters who best understood what was going on.
All I needed was to get a photographer to take a few shots of the well-dressed bankers queueing for their money, and write a caption explaining it.
We did not do this. Such a story on the FT’s front page might have been enough to push the system over the edge. Our readers went unwarned, and the system went without that final prod into panic.
Was this the right call? I think so. All our competitors also shunned any photos of Manhattan bank branches. The right to free speech does not give us right to shout fire in a crowded cinema; there was the risk of a fire, and we might have lit the spark by shouting about it.
A few weeks later, the deposit protection limit was raised from $100,000 to $250,000 via an emergency economic stabilisation bill passed by Congress.
Ten years on, US banks are virtually the only players in the financial world plainly more secure than they were before. They have delivered and built up capital, and the risk of a sudden collapse is now far more distant.
The problem now is that disposing of that risk has obstructed the task of reducing other risks. Now, risks lie in bloated asset prices, levered investments, and in pension funds that hold them. The next crisis will not be about banking, but the insidious danger that pension funds deflate, leaving a generation without enough money to retire.
The bad news is that it is a crisis whose solution can always wait another day. Politicians can ignore it. The good news: I need not stay quiet this time.
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John Authers is the chief markets commentator and associate editor for the Financial Times.
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Bill Murphy discusses the gold cartel with Portfolio Wealth Global
(courtesy GATA)
GATA Chairman Murphy discusses gold cartel in interview
with Portfolio Wealth Global
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2018-09-10 01:18. Section: Daily Dispatches
9:24p ET Sunday, September 9, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy discusses the gold cartel — the U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Exchange Stabilization Fund, Bank for International Settlements, bullion banks, et al. — in an interview with Michelle Holiday of Portfolio Wealth Global. The interview is 20 minutes long and can be heard at YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXglp8eIhEI&t=3s
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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India’s Gold imports shoot up in August
India’s citizens have again increased their gold imports, this time by 92 tonnes-100 tonnes in August. This is terrific that we have 3 countries massively buying gold: India, China and Russia. Good reason to see gold go down
(courtesy Scrap Register)
MUMBAI (Scrap Register): India’s gold imports have risen, said Commerzbank in a snippet.
Along with China, the country is one of the world’s largest two gold-consuming nations. Analysts cited preliminary data from the Ministry of Finance showing that India imported 92 tons of gold in August, more than twice as much as a year earlier.
Analysts added that Thomson Reuters GFMS puts Indian gold imports in August at 100 tons. GFMS believes that Indian gold manufacturers took advantage of the low prices – in mid-August, gold in Indian rupees was priced at its lowest level since the end of last year – to replenish their stocks.
“After a subdued first half year, Indian gold demand has picked up noticeably again since July.” Nevertheless, analysts added, GFMS data put Indian gold imports in the first eight months of the year nearly 13% lower year-on-year at 532 tons.
https://www.scrapregister.com/news/45122/indias-gold- imports-shoot-up-in-augustns.
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Bill Holter: tackling the “truth is being extracted”
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Bill Holter: tackling the “truth is being extracted”
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