Re: News

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China is to stop silver exports for several months. Having bailed out a world shortage several months ago shipping a large amount of silver to claim world markets China, who supplies over 13% of total silver annually, announced they would be blocking exports for at least 2 months to protect stocks needed for solar panel manufacturing.

And Japan announced they were considering raising BOJ interest rates on Dec 19th. This would have a major negative effect on the Yen carry trade and would lead to a major Japanese off-loading of US treasuries. Japan is currently holding over 1 trillion worth of US debt. The US Fed will need to step in and restart bond buying to counter any Japanese sell off.