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Even though Switzerland is a very small country it plays a major role in the gold and foreign exchange markets and can create a shock with a very large impact that some call loosely a “black swan” event.

The People's Bank of China may have tripled its gold stockpile since April 2009, when it last gave an official number, which Bloomberg Intelligence estimates to be 3,510 metric tons, second to United States 8,133.5 tons of gold.

We conducted over 1.000 surveys in order to understand current perceptions and attitudes on investment gold in the US.

JP Morgan was fined $35,241,500,000 in a three-and-a-half year period. Nearly all of the penalties were tied to the financial crisis and the company’s promotion and use of mortgage-backed securities.

Interview with David Morgan (The Morgan Report - Silver-investor.com) on silver and its relation to gold

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about capital controls in France, QE, gold and the economic and financial disasters wrought by central banks.

India’s official gold imports in 2014-15 stood at 900 tonnes — 36% higher than the previous year’s 665 tonnes, indicating households’ strong preference for the yellow metal as a savings option.

Janet Yellen admitted that "cash in not a very convenient store of value"

“Financial repression” destroys the economy from within. When an over-indebted country is unable to reduce its deficit (or refuses to do it in order to continue financing its voting constituency) it exposes itself to market defiance and fleeing investors. In spite of that, in order to avoid this...

The explored reserves of gold, diamonds and zinc will be enough for 20 years of extraction, according media reports citing a Goldman Sachs research.

Chris Powell (GATA) explains why global central banks are intervening in the gold market.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced schemes to curb gold imports and monetise large idle stocks of the precious metal.

From 20th March 2015 the historic London Gold Fix will be discontinued and replaced by the LBMA Gold Price.

The media silence should be noted regarding those bankruptcies in Austria, Germany, Andorra (always coming with the risk of contagion) and maybe Greece...

France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to follow Britain’s lead and join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

The US divisions of Deutsche Bank, the Germany's biggest bank, failed a crucial stress test on Wednesday. Deutsche Bank is the bank with the most exposure to derivatives in the world...

No, the crisis is not over and, from now on, banks will be bailed out by shareholders, bond holders and savers, and it will all be legal. Be warned.

Interview with Guillermo Barba (Global Financial Intelligence): Gold and silver from a Mexican perspective

The billboard was from the Bank of China. It said: “RMB: New Choice; The World Currency”

Let’s follow Alan Greenspan’s advice and be certain that, once the – very abrupt – exit from the QE plans is realised