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Carli Blankenship summarizes the most recent and significant stories that happened in the gold and silver market during the last 2 weeks.

Newscast E3, China's Gold Reserves Jump 57% in First Official Update Since 2009, The Elite is Leading Greece And The World to Perdition, Gold Price Manipulation: Who Really Calls The Tune?, Comex Paper Precious Metals Open Interest is Going Parabolic, Record Gold/Silver Shorting, Gold Eagle Sales...

Back in April we wrote that "The Mystery Of China's Gold Holdings Is Coming To An End" as a result of China willingness to add the Yuan to the IMF's SDR currency basket which would require the disclosure of China's gold holding ahead of an IMF meeting on SDR composition which may be held in Octob...

The proposal now being put to the Greek government and parliament is a lot worse than the one which was voted down by the Greek people last Sunday. This is really the bankrupt leading the bankrupt to perdition.

Geopolitics and Gold with Gerald Celente, China Wants to Steal Gold-Market 'Reins' From New York, London, Major Buyers Continue to Stockpile Silver as U.S. Silver Imports Surge in April, Silver Coin Shortages, Again, Are Big Banks Using Derivatives to Suppress Bullion Prices?, Somebody Big's Sitt...

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with Gerald Celente (Trends Journal - Trendsresearch.com) on gold and geopolitics :     - Greece, Puerto Rico defaults, geopolitics and their relation to gold - Gold price manipulation; China, US and EU - Does China control the price of gold? -...

Gerald Celente: Greek Crisis, Gold and Geopolitics, Whistleblower Andrew Maguire Says Short Selling Of Gold And Silver Was Done By Central Banks To Avoid Another Lehman Moment, Greece: Banks Shut For A Week As Capital Controls Imposed, Why Gold Is Not Freely Priced, COMEX Gold Stockpiles - Tradin...

Since 2002 the trend has been to store Registered gold at COMEX - with over 8.5 million ounces have been stockpiled there.

Here's a good example of why gold is not trading freely in today's markets.

  Gold started a short-term down trend within a longer down trend on June 22 and as of July 3, it is testing it to the upside but has not broken it yet, closing the week at $1,168.40. The longer down trend started around May 20 remains intact.     Silver is also in a downtr...

Greece moved to check the growing strains on its crippled financial system on Sunday, closing its banks and imposing capital controls that brought the prospect of being forced out of the euro into plain sight.   After bailout talks between the leftwing government and foreign lenders...

Did COMEX Just Receive A Physical Gold Bailout From The Feds?, Speculators Massively Short on the COMEX, Switzerland Gold Imports & Exports For May, Top 5 Gold Producers: Stunning Decline In Gold Productivity, China to Launch a Yuan-Based Gold Fix by Year-End, Chinese Gold Standard Would be "Game...

The situation on the paper gold market shows that speculators are massively short on gold currently (even more so since they’re anticipating a friendly settlement for Greece). On the other hand, the commercials have taken the opposite side of the trade. Generally, this is a typical signal of a p...

An article in the Swiss newspaper Bilan published last week states that the weight of gold in the global economy amounts to $172 billion. This is a relatively modest number, slightly lower than Apple’s annual turnaround, for example. Is that all that gold weighs?

Imports = 119 tonnes  Exports = 108 tonnes      

Summary On June 1, 2015, JPMorgan added almost exactly enough ounces of physical gold to patch the deficiency between supply and delivery demand at COMEX, avoiding widespread dealer default. Declassified documents, along with strong circumstantial evidence indicate that it was not JPMorgan, b...