🏦🥇📈 — 📰 ZeroHedge: Central Bank Gold Buying Expected To Remain Hot Over Next Several Years

➡️ Net central bank gold buying exceeded 1,000 tons two straight years, and commodity analysts at ANZ Bank expect central bank gold demand to continue hot for at least the next six years.

➡️ [Emerging market] central banks could purchase over 600 tons of gold annually until 2030, to take its share in their foreign reserves to 10 percent. China will likely occupy the lion’s share in global official gold demand.

➡️ Analysts at the Australian bank noted that annual central bank gold demand has nearly tripled and now makes up 25 to 30 percent of total global demand.

➡️ Central bank net gold purchases totaled 1,037 tons in 2023. That fell just 45 tons short of 2022’s multi-decade record.

➡️ China was the biggest buyer in 2023. The People’s Bank of China officially reported a 225-ton increase in its gold reserves.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇧🇾 NEXTA Live: Local Telegram channels report an explosion in Odessa

➡️ According to Greek media reports, a meeting between Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis is scheduled to take place today in Odessa.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/nexta_live/72257

MicroStrategy just raised 🤑$700m on a 6 year term at a 0.625% interest rate.

The company raised $100m more than initially announced and will buy more 💰Bitcoin 

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇳 Chinese National Residing in California Arrested for Theft of Artificial Intelligence-Related Trade Secrets from Google

Defendant Allegedly Pilfered Technology from Google While Secretly Working for Two PRC-Based Technology Companies

🔗 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-residing-california-arrested-theft-artificial-intelligence-related-trade

🏛🇺🇸❗️👤📡— 🇺🇸 The Washington Post | Democrats probe Musk’s SpaceX, examining Russia’s alleged Starlink use | Lawmakers say Russia’s alleged use of Starlink terminals ‘poses a serious threat to Ukraine’s security, Ukrainian lives, and U.S. national security’ | March 7, 2024:

"House Democrats opened an investigation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, examining whether the company implemented adequate safeguards to prevent Russia from deploying its Starlink satellite internet service in its war against Ukraine.

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter Wednesday night demanding that the company report complaints about potential illegal acquisitions of Starlink terminals, including in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. The lawmakers said they were alarmed by Ukrainian intelligence officials’ allegations that Russian forces deployed the company’s terminals in eastern Ukraine, potentially running afoul of U.S. sanctions.

The lawmakers warned SpaceX’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, that Russia’s alleged use of Starlink “poses a serious threat to Ukraine’s security, Ukrainian lives, and U.S. national security”

“We are concerned that you may not have appropriate guardrails and policies in place,” Raskin and Garcia wrote in a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post.

The probe underscores how vital Starlink service has been to Ukraine’s war effort, providing the backbone of its digital communications on the battlefield since Russia invaded the country two years ago. SpaceX supplied Starlink terminals to Ukraine following a plea from Ukrainian government officials within hours of Russia’s attack. The Defense Department purchased 400 to 500 new terminals for Ukraine in June 2023, the letter says."

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