International Hacking Group Steals $300 Million – Global Digital Banking System Not Secure – Sophisticated “Ocean’s 11″ style heist is one of the largest in history – Hackers remotely accessed bank computers to manipulate accounts and A.T.M.s. – Banking groups

International Hacking Group Steals $300 Million – Global Digital Banking System Not Secure – Sophisticated “Ocean’s 11″ style heist is one of the largest in history – Hackers remotely accessed bank computers to manipulate accounts and A.T.M.s. – Banking groups

Central Bank Gold Purchases Increased In 2014 Says WGC As Sweden Enters Currency Wars – Official central bank purchases rose 17% in 2014 – Russia and Kazakhstan dominate purchases – No official figures for China since 2009 – massive volumes

Stalemate At Minsk Summit And Eurogroup Meeting Suggests Tensions In Europe And Globally Are Set To Escalate – Diplomats best hopes for Minsk is for freeze in hostilities – Russia engages the U.S. in war of words as tensions mount

Stalemate At Minsk Summit And Eurogroup Meeting Suggests Tensions In Europe And Globally Are Set To Escalate – Diplomats best hopes for Minsk is for freeze in hostilities – Russia engages the U.S. in war of words as tensions mount

Minsk Summit Highlights A Shaky NATO Union – Russia Is Far From Isolated – Merkel and Hollande to attend peace talks in Belarus to resolve Ukraine’s civil war today – US and UK not invited – Germany and US present

Minsk Summit Highlights A Shaky NATO Union – Russia Is Far From Isolated – Merkel and Hollande to attend peace talks in Belarus to resolve Ukraine’s civil war today – US and UK not invited – Germany and US present

Syriza Defies Technocrats, US Pressure EU to Accommodate Greece, Greeks Buy Gold – Tsipras to push ahead with counter-reforms “in their entirety” – Dijsselbloem tells Syriza it must comply with Troika this week or have funding cut from February 28th

Trade Data show China’s Credit Bubble is Bursting, Investors Pull Cash out of China – Global Depression Ahead? – Chinese imports, primarily of raw materials, crashed 19.9% in January – Exports fall 3.3% against expectations of 6.3% rise – Total

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Currency Wars – Russia and Netherlands Buy 30 Tonnes Gold In December Russia and surprisingly the Netherlands were the largest central bank buyers in December – accumulating a significant 30.34 tonnes between them as currency wars intensify. Demand for gold

Currency Wars – Russia and Netherlands Buy 30 Tonnes Gold In December Russia and surprisingly the Netherlands were the largest central bank buyers in December – accumulating a significant 30.34 tonnes between them as currency wars intensify. Demand for gold

Euro Gold Surges To EUR 1,168 After Greek Election Landslide The crushing victory of the Greek opposition party Syriza in yesterday’s Greek elections has added to jitters in already jittery financial and foreign exchange markets. The euro tumbled and gold

 Gold Surges As ECB To Print Trillion Euros and ‘Grexit’ Election Sunday Stocks, bonds and precious metals surged yesterday as markets cheered the latest wave of money printing on a grand scale. Gold surged 3 per cent in euro terms

ECB To Print Trillion Euros – Gold Could Surge 40% In 15 Minutes Against Euro, Other Currencies Mario Draghi is preparing to unveil QE today as the ECB looks certain to announce it’s much anticipated quantitative easing (QE) programme. The