by David Jensen, Jensen’s Economic, Precious Metals, & Markets Newsletter:
The UK’s BullionVault, partially owned by RIT Capital Partners which is an investment arm of the Rothschild family, reports the following rates to lease physical gold and silver in London on Monday February 3, 2025:
Gold : 4.5% for a 1 month lease
Silver: 6.5% for a 1 month lease
In the article, Bruce Ikemizu of the Japanese Bullion Market Association says of the silver lease rate “6.5% for silver is almost at a level that could be called a squeeze”.