Offer & Supply

Russia has it's largest monthly purchase of gold in 15 years with 1.2 million ounces.

The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said on Thursday it appointed Morgan Stanley as a market maker, underscoring the ambitions of some banks to expand into precious metals trading while others exit due to stringent regulations.

Central Bank Gold Agreements (CBGA), total gold sales, all signatories

We can’t speak about the manipulation of the gold price today without understanding the derivatives market. Right after the crash of 2000 in the stock market I became alarmed by the exponential increase of derivative products but especially by the complexity of those products.

New charts which show the daily/weekly/monthly flows in & out of the warehouses for gold and silver.

Chris Powell has covered many aspects of the Western gold price suppression scheme last week on "The Larry Parks Show," broadcast on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York.

The Hong Kong Imports into China are only a fraction of the gold delivered through the SGE.

Central banks have kept silent about this but it’s hard to believe that manipulating the foreign exchange market isn’t part of their policies; it’s probably also part of their new strategy.

An unexpected precipitating event like a black swan event in this uncertain environment will push gold and silver up with a quantum leap with gold leading. The geopolitical and economic environment in the last few months was in my view the calm before the storm.

Net gold imports into China via Hong Kong were 27 tonnes for the month of August.     The Hong Kong route has gone from being the major source for Chinese imports to a minor one as can be seen in the second chart where SGE Withdrawals were almost 190 tonnes for the month of Augu...