Precious Metals and Market News

Gold rises, silver falls as strong bond auction tempers yield pressure - Kitco PM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold prices were firmer and spot silver prices were lower in late U.S. trading Thursday, as a strong 30-year Treasury auction helped yields retreat from the morning highs, while oil’s surge kept inflation and year-end Fed tightening risk in the trade.

Silver's long-term outlook remains bullish as new investment products offer income opportunities - Amplify ETFs - (Kitco News) - The silver market continues to struggle in the face of persistent inflation pressures and higher bond yields. However, one market strategist says the precious metal remains an important monetary asset and diversification tool.

Gold gains ground as central banks retreat from dollar assets and inflation undermines bonds – Sprott’s Zhu - (Kitco News) – Gold’s ability to maintain its trading range and attract fresh ETF inflows despite soaring bond yields suggests its next move could be to the upside, while central banks’ shift away from dollar assets continues to bolster the longer-term bullish outlook, according to Kenny Zhu, Director of Research and Investment Strategy at Sprott.

Peter Schiff says rising yields are 'the most bullish thing' for gold, warns Washington could pay 50 cents on the dollar - (Kitco News) - Schiff tells Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron that 9% mortgages and a 30% to 50% drop in home prices could be next, and why he holds more of his own money in gold miners than bullion.

Gold firms, silver slides as oil surge revives inflation pressure - Kitco AM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) – Spot gold prices are firmer and spot silver prices are sharply lower in early U.S. trading Thursday, as another jump in oil prices and Treasury yields kept inflation and Fed tightening risk at the center of the metals trade.

Gold price at $4,122/oz after U.S. weekly jobless claims fall to 197k - (Kitco News) - Gold prices are trading near the middle of their daily range on Thursday morning following the release of better-than-expected labor market data after the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits came in below economists’ forecasts.

Gold, silver slump as Fed minutes keep December hike risk alive - Kitco PM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices were sharply lower in late U.S. trading Wednesday, as Federal Reserve minutes kept another year-end rate increase on the table while elevated long-end Treasury yields and a firmer dollar pressured non-yielding metals.

FOMC minutes show the Fed ready to hike again in 2026 as AI buildout replaces tariffs as main driver of core prices - (Kitco News) – The minutes from the September 15-16 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting showed Fed members acknowledging the need to respond to persistent inflation, with most expecting that another rate hike would be necessary before year-end, while several saw the effects of the AI buildout on core inflation increasing while the effects tariffs waned.

China’s central bank buys 21 tonnes of gold in September, largest monthly purchase in 3 years - (Kitco News) – China ramped up its gold purchases in September as bullion prices declined, recording the largest monthly increase in its official reserves in three years, the People’s Bank of China announced on Wednesday.The central bank increased its gold reserves by 21 tonnes last month to 2,196 tonnes as of the end of September, marking the 23rd consecutive month of purchases, according to t...

Gold, silver slide as yields rise before Fed minutes, 10-year auction - Kitco AM Report - (Kitco NewsWire) – Spot gold and silver prices are lower in early U.S. trading Wednesday, as a rebound in long-dated Treasury yields, firmer dollar tone and oil back above $100 a barrel offset the Fed-pause relief from last week’s weak employment report.

Turkey Rules Out Launching Attacks On Yemen From Saudi Arabia - Turkey Rules Out Launching Attacks On Yemen From Saudi Arabia Via Middle East Eye Turkey will not send troops to Saudi Arabia to launch attacks on Yemen under the Mecca defense pact, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday. "This is not an offensive agreement. Turkey will not send troops to another country's territory to launch an attack there," he said during a liv...

Two Latvians Arrested After Breach At US Intel Hub Deepens UK Sabotage Concerns - Two Latvians Arrested After Breach At US Intel Hub Deepens UK Sabotage Concerns Days after the US pulled all its Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic bombers from Britain's RAF Fairford air base over mounting security concerns following a suspected terrorist plot against the base late last month, another incident has occurred, this time at a critical US and NATO intelligence hub. Bloomb...

'The Nord Stream Pipelines Will Be Relaunched,' Says Right-Wing Polish MEP Braun During Meeting With AfD In Germany - 'The Nord Stream Pipelines Will Be Relaunched,' Says Right-Wing Polish MEP Braun During Meeting With AfD In Germany Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix, Grzegorz Braun, leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, spoke in favor of restarting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines during a meeting Wednesday with politicians from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Lub...

These Are The World's Biggest Military Drone Exporters - These Are The World's Biggest Military Drone Exporters The U.S. and Iran supplied 86% of the 16,822 military drones exported worldwide from 2022 to 2025, according to SIPRI's arms-transfer data: 7,593 from the U.S. and 6,800 from Iran, out of 14 exporting countries. U.S. exports climbed from 1,010 in 2022 to 3,219 in 2024, then fell to 402 in 2025, while Iran kept delivering about...

Why Is A British Charity Telling Migrants Not To Be 'Deceived' By Underage Girls? - Why Is A British Charity Telling Migrants Not To Be 'Deceived' By Underage Girls? Authored by James Dixon via Spiked, Three words in a video that did the rounds last month made my skin crawl: 'Don't be deceived.' They might sound perfectly innocent at first pass, but in context, they are chilling. The footage in question comes from a recorded session apparently run by the Aberd...

Interpreting Russia's Position Towards The Islamic NATO - Interpreting Russia's Position Towards The Islamic NATO Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, While Russia officially has no problem with the Islamic NATO and even hopes that it'll one day include Iran to fulfill Russia's regional collective security vision, it would be inaccurate to claim that Russia is naïve about the latent threat that this bloc could pose as a result of Tur...

Customs & Border Protection Has Scanned More Than 1 Billion Travelers With Facial Biometrics - Customs & Border Protection Has Scanned More Than 1 Billion Travelers With Facial Biometrics Customs and Border Protection says it has now verified the identity of more than 1 billion travelers with facial biometrics, announcing the milestone in an Oct. 5 statement. The agency says the system runs at entry in every U.S. airport with international arrivals, at exit in 66 airports, a...

Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait - Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait Authored by Ryan McEntush via Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), At the end of 2024, Texas' grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers. Then Texas hit pause. What began as directions for data centers to pay for their ow...

Nvidia-Backed Australian Data Center Pulls IPO As Investors Balk At Valuation - Nvidia-Backed Australian Data Center Pulls IPO As Investors Balk At Valuation Update (10pm ET): Earlier we reported that Australian data center operator Firmus, perhaps the biggest pillar of Nvidia's circular financing scheme Down Under, closed the books on its struggling IPO "without clear indication of the price or the deal structure," as investors grew "increasingly concerned th...

US Taxpayers Currently Lose Up To $500B Annually To Fraud; Report - US Taxpayers Currently Lose Up To $500B Annually To Fraud; Report Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A new report published by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) shows federal taxpayers are losing up to $521 billion annually to fraud and improper payments. According to Just the News, the report estimates that improper payments by the federal governme...

‘I feel like a loser’: My ETFs go up one day and crash the next. Is this a bad sign? - “I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.”

Why the price of this one ETF has gone exponential - An exchange-traded fund tied to freight futures is surging.

Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo set to sell $7 million Tennessee home he gave her in divorce - Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo are bidding farewell to their $7 million Tennessee home, which the country singer handed over to his former wife following their divorce.

Why one Wall Street firm sees parallels to the late 1970s and recommends shorting U.S. stocks - The artificial-intelligence build-out is most often associated with the dot-com boom at the end of the last century, but quants at one Wall Street giant identify another parallel: to the bell-bottomed, polyester suit, high-inflation era of the late 1970s.

SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile plans are pressuring AT&T and Verizon shares - SpaceX plans to purchase Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio in a move to bolster its mobile ambitions. The news is lifting cell-tower stocks.

How to downsize like a pro — and free yourself from being a ‘prisoner of your possessions’ - Seven tips for painlessly moving in retirement.

Feel like a pumpkin-spice burrito? Analysts try to wrap their heads around a possible Starbucks-Chipotle tie-up. - Starbucks investors would likely not be happy about the company adding debt to finance a deal to buy Chipotle, given that it already has a high debt load.

Micron, Nvidia and AI chip stocks fall as report on OpenAI’s revenue causes ‘undue concern’ - OpenAI’s annualized revenue reportedly fell short of expectations — but analysts say that reflects differences in how the figure is reported, not weakness in AI demand.

My husband inherited $3 million. He wants a vacation home, but I want to save for retirement. Who’s right? - “I keep thinking about giving each child $750,000 toward a house.”

Why a longtime skeptic of Palantir’s stock is finally saying it’s time to buy - Palantir’s total addressable market could get a lot bigger, while its business model should sustain its lead against competitors, an analyst says

Stock futures edge higher after OpenAI's revenue report prompts tech sector turmoil: Live updates - The Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 1% on Thursday, marking its biggest one-day loss since mid-August.

South Africa lawyer Navanethm 'Navi' Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to prosecute war crimes and genocide - Navanethem "Navi" Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting peace and international law.

OpenAI defends decision to fire researchers: 'These decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out' - OpenAI has defended its decision to fire three safety researchers for what the AI lab has described as a "significant breach of trust"

SpaceX deal to acquire spectrum license hammers shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile - SpaceX agreed to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it to pushes its Starlink service deeper into the U.S. telecommunications market.

JPMorgan is falling into earnings next week. It's paid off to buy the dip - JPMorgan Chase is among the major financial stocks kicking off earnings season next week, and its technical set-up deserves attention.

Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says - Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

Inflation fears on the rise as one-year outlook in Fed survey hits highest level since May 2023 - The Survey of Consumer Expectations indicated that the median outlook for inflation over the next 12 months rose to 3.9%.

ICE came to town and left behind weakened economies - Research links ICE enforcement surges to lasting declines in local spending, foot traffic and jobs. In Minneapolis, businesses are still recovering.

Why AI is both the hope and the hazard for world leaders, according to IMF chief Georgieva - Kristalina Georgieva warns that the technology lifting growth hopes is also pushing up inflation and yields, just as public debt levels rose.

India’s central bank hikes rates for the first time since 2023 as inflation risks build - HSBC and Goldman Sachs expect the RBI to raise interest rates in December as well.

Last week's official intervention against gold and silver will prompt more official buying - 8:10p ET Thursday, October 8, 2026 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: On this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, London metals trader Andrew Maguire says last week's smashing of gold and silver prices was an official intervention timed for the week-long closure of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, with 91 tonnes of "paper" gold and 1,400 tonnes of "paper" silver being sold. T...

Gold powerhouse Ghana seeks entry to Russia-China-backed BRICS bloc - By Solomon EkanemBusiness Insider Africa, New YorkThursday, October 8, 2026 Ghana has announced plans to formally apply for membership of BRICS, seeking India's backing as the West African gold powerhouse looks to deepen ties with an expanding bloc led by emerging-market powers including Russia and China. Ghana's foreign affairs minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, announced the decision Tuesday ...

India scraps tax relief for gold imports, raising costs - By Shruti Srivastava and Preeti SoniBloomberg NewsThursday, October 8, 2026 India withdrew a tax benefit on gold, silver and platinum imported by banks and state-nominated agencies, subjecting shipments to a 3% levy and raising costs for the main channels supplying one of the world’s largest bullion markets. The government did not extend the exemption from paying Integrated Goods and Services T...

Brien Lundin: The Fed trap is tightening - By Brien LundinGold Newsletter / Gold Opportunities, Metairie, LouisianaWednesday, October 7, 2026 Gold is getting punched in the mouth again today. And if you've been following this bull market for any length of time, you know that's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it may be giving us exactly the opportunity we’ve been waiting for. Because this gold bull market has changed. ... Dispatch ...

China's central bank adds gold in Sept. as bullion weakens - By Jessica ZhouBloomberg NewsWednesday, October 7, 2026 China added more gold to reserves last month, pushing a buying streak close to the two-year mark as prices weaken toward $4,000 an ounce. Holdings of bullion at the People's Bank of China expanded by 740,000 ounces in September, marking the 23rd month of accumulation, according to data today. The central bank -- among the biggest gold buye...

Status of the Commercial Real Estate Debt and Who Owns it in 2026 - The government is the most aggressive CRE lender. But even CMBS balances are surging again, water under bridge?

Still QT plus Renewed Rate Hikes at the ECB despite Surging Bond Yields in the Euro Area - The ECB shed €95 billion of QE Bonds & Loans in Q3. Since mid-2022, QE assets dropped by 53%! Gold got marked up to market.

Thoughts on the 10-Year Treasury Auction’s 5.30% Yield, Highest since 2000: It Created Demand, Bond Bloodbath Continued - The bond market is coming out from under 14 years of interest rate repression and is doing its thing, the way it is supposed to. And that’s what Warsh wants it to do.

Legal Tender Forces Gold Out - The government has many ways of forcing us to use their paper dollar as money. The tax on capital gains on gold (I wrote about this here) is one bullet in their gun. The legal tender law—U.S. Code ...

These Countries May Be Next To Accept Bitcoin as Legal Tender - One of the main knocks against cryptocurrency has always been that it will never gain universal adoption, meaning its usefulness will always be limited. This perhaps changed forever on September 7, ...

Legal Tender - Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency and coins are common forms of legal tender in many countries. Legal ...

What Is Considered Legal Tender in the US? - "Legal tender" means that the financial instrument in question legally serves to pay any public or private debt. Federal law guarantees its printed value regardless of its intrinsic convertible value, ...

Bill Introduced To Make Bitcoin A Legal Tender In Arizona - Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin a legal tender in the U.S. state of Arizona. The bill seeks to add bitcoin to the list of instruments considered legal tender in ...

Dark web drug market operator sentenced to 40 years, forfeits $101 million in bitcoin - A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner forfeited nearly 1,600 BTC.

MARA transfers $81.1 million in bitcoin to Galaxy Digital as strategy pivots to AI - The bitcoin miner’s transfer does not confirm a sale, but comes as its treasury has fallen from 53,822 BTC in February to 35,577 BTC in August.

Sam Altman-backed bitcoin insurer Meanwhile secures $37.5 million in Bain Capital Crypto-led round - Meanwhile has signed 15 brokers serving high-net worth clients across markets iSwitzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UAE.

Live updates: XRP ETFs the only ones in green as BTC, ETH, ZEC funds post outflows - Bitcoin ETFs lost $244 million on Thursday and the ZEC fund extended a run of October outflows. Bitcoin is back near $82,000 after a $1 billion liquidation.

New tech to power bitcoin lending is set to debut with $500 million in commitments - Layer-1 blockchain Sui is launching Hashi, an institutional protocol allowing holders to use bitcoin as collateral without moving it off the Bitcoin network.

Solana is about to halve its block times as final 200-millisecond upgrade nears - The network is completing a seven-week push to produce blocks twice as frequently, though validators face higher costs and tighter operating windows.

XRP Ledger adds new controls for banks, stablecoins and tokenized funds - The feature lets businesses give separate accounts limited powers such as approving customers or making payments, while keeping the keys that control their main holdings offline.

Ether bets were wiped out at six times bitcoin’s rate in crypto’s $1 billion flush - About $356 million in ETH positions were liquidated over 24 hours, more than bitcoin despite ether’s market value being less than a fifth as large.

Bitcoin rebounds to $82,000 as Trump rules out Iran strikes, oil drops - Bitcoin rebounded to $82,000 as Trump ruled out an Iran strike before the midterms, while crypto security experts pushed back on “bunker mode” fears.

Top Democrat among Senate investigators probes ties between Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether - As Democrats steadily rise in their potential to take back a Senate majority, Senator Richard Blumenthal is digging into Tether's U.S. financial partnership.

Glassnode: Over $500B in Bitcoin Is Sitting Behind Keys Anyone Can Read - Glassnode says 6.26 million BTC, or 31.2% of supply, now sits in addresses whose public keys are already visible onchain. The count is rising just as an AI-driven cryptography scare hits the market. How Much Bitcoin Is Exposed? The number seems to be rising at a rapid pace, so much so that in a thread […]

Your Bitcoin or Crypto AI Agent Might Upsell You: Here’s How to Fix It - Giving an artificial intelligence (AI) agent access to your bitcoin, stablecoin or other crypto asset wallet might cost you in an unexpected way. If the agent thinks you’re wealthy, it might upsell you. Similarly, access to your other financial information could work against you. There are trivial ways to reduce this risk: don’t give the […]

Bitcoin Price Sits at $82K as Thailand Opens the Door to Bitcoin ETFs - Thailand’s securities regulator has finalized the rules for bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and the first products can list from Oct. 16. The catch, however, is that the local market they are built for has lost more than half its active traders since 2024. Eleven Notices and One Exchange The Securities and Exchange Commission […]

David Gross Warns Nuclear War Odds Have Doubled, Putting the Next 50 Years in Doubt - David Gross, the 2004 Nobel Prize winning physicist, says the annual risk of nuclear war has climbed from about 1% during the Cold War to roughly 2% today, a shift he argues sharply cuts humanity’s odds of making it another 50 years. He points to a nine-country nuclear club, collapsing arms-control treaties, hypersonic weapons, and […]

Kyrgyzstan Shuts Stablecoin USDKG, Burns 50M Tokens After UK Sanctions - Kyrgyzstan is winding down USDKG, its state-backed gold stablecoin, and liquidating both its issuer and the country’s first state-owned crypto exchange. Kyrgyzstan Pulls Plug on USDKG and State-Owned Crypto Exchange Kyrgyzstan is pulling the plug on one of the crypto industry’s more unusual sovereign experiments. The government has ordered the liquidation of EVA, issuer of […]

Brickbat: …in All the Wrong Places - Indiana State Police arrested Hancock County sheriff's deputy James Heneghan and charged him with 220 counts each of official misconduct… The post Brickbat: …in All the Wrong Places appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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The NFL Chooses States, Not the CFTC, in Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation - The league's amicus brief warns about game integrity and underage betting, but the NFL has a financial stake in keeping prediction markets under state control.

J.D. Vance Accidentally Comes Out as a Socialist - At a press conference, the vice president offered a strange new definition of the word. But his full remarks revealed a deeper irony.

Russian Plague, Superintelligence, and Tucker Carlson - Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi weigh in on the Russian plague, whether superintelligence is sentient, and Tucker Carlson's shaky grasp of history.

I'm Italian American, but I Don't Celebrate Columbus Day. - The holiday brings out many of the worst excesses of identity politics.

D.C. Wants To Protect Ride-Share Jobs. Riders Could Pay the Price. - Unions rallied against a D.C. robotaxi bill that already favors them. Riders would pay for their win in higher fares and more dangerous roads.

Kimberly Guilfoyle's Grift Is at Least as Offensive as Hunter Biden's - The ex-girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. asked a Republican fundraiser to pay off her credit card debt.

The Pentagon Is Eating Silicon Valley - An influx of military spending has been moving tech companies away from serving consumers and back toward chasing government contracts.

North Carolina Woman Doesn't Have First Amendment Right to Publish Video of Cop Shooting Her Dogs, Court Rules - A North Carolina state trooper shot Lydia Nikac's two dogs, but an appeals court ruled she doesn't have a right to publish body camera footage of the shooting under the state's restrictive public records laws.

Lost Cause: The Federal Government will Never Limit Itself - Going to the federal government to convince the federal government to limit its own power? That’s not just dumb strategy and a lost cause. It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty. On this episode, it’s James Madison’s blueprint for beating the feds without relying on the feds to magically limit their own power. Plus the right to keep and bear arms as the ultimate safeguard for freedom. T...

The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. - That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let politicians have extra power or funding because THEY declare an emergency? And you’ll get never-ending emergencies. The post The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. a...

The ONLY Cure for a Corrupted Republic - Removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles is what Montesquieu said is the only path forward. Everything else is doomed to failure: “every other correction,” he warned, ”is either useless or a new evil.” On this episode, it’s the top-6 principles that built American independence. Forgotten and ignored for generations, but only truly lost if “We the People” refuse to bring them ba...

When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information - This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recent COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF. Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when user...

It's DAF Day! Wait...What's a DAF? - Today is DAF Day! This event highlights the millions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) people have set up to make charitable donations and change the world. If you have a DAF, consider supporting EFF today. Decisions about your privacy, encryption, artificial intelligence, online speech, and digital security will determine whether technology empowers people or concentrates power in the hands of a f...

Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name - There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. DEFEND IP Act, and all of th...

New Decision in Ongoing Legal Saga of Atlanta Family Wrongly Raided by FBI SWAT Team - ATLANTA—A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in the years long lawsuit brought by an Atlanta family whose […] The post New Decision in Ongoing Legal Saga of Atlanta Family Wrongly Raided by FBI SWAT Team appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Denver Man’s Case to Revive Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Requirements - WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a Denver man who challenged the constitutionality of a warrant that led to his […] The post Supreme Court Declines to Hear Denver Man’s Case to Revive Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Requirements appeared first on Institute for Justice.

National Law Firm Warns Maine Town: Fines for Autistic Girl’s Lawn Ornaments Violate the First Amendment - Pyper LeBlanc loves roosters.  The six-year-old girl with autism arrived at the home of David and Sara LeBlanc, her adopted parents, with a stuffed rooster. […] The post National Law Firm Warns Maine Town: Fines for Autistic Girl’s Lawn Ornaments Violate the First Amendment appeared first on Institute for Justice.

TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA The post TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP appear...

CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit.  The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a The post CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARR...

SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the The post SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF ...

This Week in Gun Rights - THIS WEEK IN THE FIGHT Here’s what you may have missed this week in the fight for the Second Amendment… This week, ATF confirmed that guidance is incoming on GOA’s historic victory against the registration requirements of the National Firearms Act…  Also, ATF confirmed to Congress that they have more than 1.4 billion records in their illegal registry of guns … Read more

GOA Sues City of Jacksonville, Florida Over Illegal Gun-Free Zones - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  September 29, 2026  Jacksonville, FL — Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), Florida Carry, and individual plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit challenging firearm restrictions enforced at City-owned venues across Jacksonville. The suit (Case No. 16-2026-CA-006676-AXXX-MA) names the City of Jacksonville, Sheriff T.K. Waters, and Mayor Donna Deegan—and chall...

President Trump Just Killed DOJ’s Appeal - PRESIDENT TRUMP TOLD DOJ: DON’T APPEAL GOA’S WIN! Thank you to President Trump for supporting the Second Amendment! President Trump personally ordered the Justice Department not to appeal our NFA victory. The deadline to file would have been October 5th. But, ATF still hasn’t issued guidance for FFLs and gun owners on how to proceed after the win. GOA has … Read more

Amex dinged by Fed, OCC; must pay $350M for AML failures - Regulators identified “significant deficiencies” in how the American Express’s enterprise-wide, anti-money laundering program was implemented, in particular at the firm's subsidiary national bank.

HUD probes Wells Fargo over ‘racialized’ lending - Wells’ programs to bolster Black home ownership – put in place in 2017 and 2022 – are “immoral, unethical and un-American,” Secretary Scott Turner said.

TowneBank deal shrinks pool of NC bank targets - The Virginia lender is paying a premium for Mooresville, North Carolina-based Blueharbor, and scarcity value makes the remaining banks in the Tar Heel State “quite valuable,” an analyst said.

Third Coast to buy Oklahoma bank for $240M - The deal comes roughly a year after Houston-based Third Coast announced its $123 million purchase of Austin, Texas-based Keystone Bancshares.

Fed consolidates bank supervision structure - Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman laid out changes Tuesday to the Fed’s supervisory structure intended “to implement a culture of accountability and clear decision-making authority.”

Interoperability and payments' last mile problem - Leigh Amaro, Chief Executive of the Americas at Swift, discusses the issues of payments interoperability with American Banker payments reporter Joey Pizzolato at SIBOS.

How AI will impact payments - Leigh Amaro, Chief Executive of the Americas at Swift, talks with American Banker payments reporter Joey Pizzolato at SIBOS about AI and its impact on the payments sector.

From retail payments to blockchain - Leigh Amaro, Chief Executive of the Americas at Swift, talks with American Banker payments reporter Joey Pizzolato at SIBOS about new projects the network has launched recently.

How treasury management is changing - Matthew Davies, Head of Global Payments Solutions, EMEA, Bank of America, discusses the future of treasury management and how it's being automated with AI, in a conversation with Joey Pizzolato, payments reporter, American Banker, at SIBOS.

Real-time payments: where they're headed next - Matthew Davies, Head of Global Payments Solutions, EMEA, Bank of America, and Joey Pizzolato, payments reporter, American Banker, discuss the future of real-time payments at SIBOS.

Pushing the monetary frontier: stablecoins and tokenised deposits - Speech by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the BIS, at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, 28 August 2026.

BIS residential property price statistics, Q1 2026 - Real global house prices declined by 1.2% year on year (yoy) in the first quarter of 2026.

Effective resolution strategies and plans for insurers – Executive Summary - The Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions (Key Attributes) of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) require resolution plans to be developed for all financial institutions, including insurers, that could be systemically significant or critical upon failure.

Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity ... - Federal Reserve Board announces enforcement action against American Express Company to address, among other things, the firm’s failure to sufficiently detect and report certain suspicious activity related to money laundering

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026 - Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation - Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Press Release: FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance - PRESS RELEASE | OCTOBER 5, 2026 FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance WASHINGTON—The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC...

Press Release: FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship - PRESS RELEASE | SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (...