Europe

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,

Because nothing says 'fiduciary' duty like waiting until Europe closes to dump $850 million notional of gold...

To the tick 1130ET - when European stocks close - gold started to be dumped...

And Silver...

As The USD was suddenly bid...

Charts: Bloomberg

Will The November US Presidential Election Bring The End Of The World?

Paul Craig Roberts

“We have been watching for nearly a month a steady buildup of American and NATO forces along Russia’s borders – on land, on sea and in the air. There has been nothing like this on Russia’s borders, such an amassing of hostile military force, since the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.”

World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock: “Perfect Time” For Gold

The world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock Inc., has written a note about gold in which it suggests that this is the “perfect time and place” for gold due to “low and even negative yields, slow growth and potential signs of rising inflation.”

A senior retired NATO general has predicted that Russia will start a world war in exactly a year from now. General Sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Nato’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe said that a Russian attack on Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia, which are all Nato members, was a serious possibility and that the West should act now to avert “potential catastrophe”. A Russia insider report: BRACE YOURSELF: Ex-Deputy NATO Commander Predicts Russia Will Start WW3 in May 2017 We’re not kidding, he is actually that specific General Sir Richard Shirreff This is unbelievable.