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Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Shortage Threat Drives Texas Schools Hoarding Bullion at HSBC

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:56 AM PDT

Dallas hedge-fund manager J. Kyle Bass helped advise the University of Texas Investment Management Co. on taking delivery of 6,643 gold bars, worth $987 million on April 15, now stored in a bank warehouse in New York.

Bass, who made $500 million with 2006 bets on a U.S. subprime-mortgage market collapse, said managers of the endowment, known as UTIMCO, sought board approval to convert its gold investments into bullion this year. A board member, Bass, 41, said he was asked to help with that process...

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$5,000 Gold: Who's Missing From This List of Peak Price Prognosticators?

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 06:19 AM PDT

125 economists, academics, gold analysts and market commentators have been identified as maintaining that gold will reach a parabolic peak price of at least $2,500 a troy ounce (ozt.) before the bubble finally pops! Of those 125 prognosticators 86 – yes, 86 – believe gold will reach a high of $5,000 ozt; 52 of those maintain that a price in excess of $5,000 ozt. is more likely. It would seem it is still not too late to buy into this gold (and silver) bull run. Words: 820

Instability in Middle East & N. Africa Slows M&A Activity

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 03:25 AM PDT

Trefis submits:

Global M&A activity took a licking during the global financial crisis before improving in 2010. In 2011, several major M&A announcements have indicated that this market is back to growth. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is one the biggest banks in M&A and competes with those of other banks like Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) and UBS (NYSE:UBS).

With the global macro economic environment improving, we expect global M&A deal volume to remain elevated from a strong Q1. However, recent political uncertainty in the Middle East may provide some challenges to global growth especially in the Middle East. For example, one of the largest deals of the year, the $12 billion dollar sale of a stake of Kuwait based Zarin to Etisalat of UAE, fell through in part due to political uncertainties.