Central banks

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.

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...

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

Alan Greenspan thinks something big is going to happen that we can’t get out of this era of money printing without some repercussions – and pretty severe ones – that gold will benefit from.

Seeking continued diversification away from the US dollar, central banks absorbed 477.2t of gold in 2014, 17% above 2013’s impressive 409 tonnes, according to World Gold Council.