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When gold shorts must be covered, central banks to the rescue
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2009-10-09 15:45 Section: Daily Dispatches2:40p CT Friday, October 9, 2009
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Fox Business interviews Jay Taylor to explain gold's rise
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2009-10-09 00:30 Section: Daily Dispatches11:25p ET Thursday, October 8, 2009
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China's gold investors undeterred by high prices
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2009-10-09 00:10 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Stanway and Alfred Cang
Reuters
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE5960LI20091007
Gold might be a luxury most can live without when times are hard, but for cautious investors in China, the world's top producer and consumer of bullion, it has become a matter of necessity.
Financial Times acknowledges Fed's political problems
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 17:59 Section: Daily DispatchesNew Monetary Target
By Tom Braithwaite
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28db4010-b377-11de-ae8d-00144feab49a.html
It is an unlikely rallying cry. At marches and meetings against big government across the United States, where some placards damn the president, others bear a catchy slogan: "End the Fed."
Dollar dump story must have been market rigging by gold bugs
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 17:23 Section: Daily DispatchesWhodunit? Sneak Attack on U.S. Dollar
By Eamon Javers
Politico, Arlington, Virginia
Thursday, October 8, 2009
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28091.html
It's the biggest mystery in global finance right now: Who conducted a sneak attack on the U.S. dollar this week?
Geithner has frequent contact with Wall Street firms
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 17:11 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Deborah Solomon
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, October 8, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125502308629073925.html
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has kept in frequent contact with a small group of Wall Street firms since taking the helm at the Treasury, speaking most often with top officials from Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Russia Today interviews journalist who rocked the currency markets
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 14:35 Section: Daily Dispatches1:30p ET Thursday, October 8, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Robert Fisk of the Independent in London, whose story Tuesday about an international plan to replace the U.S. dollar as the main form of payment for oil trading rocked the currency and precious metals markets --
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar...
'Strong dollar' mantra now means a steadily weakening dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 10:26 Section: Daily Dispatches'I Believe In Strong Dollar' Turns Relic as China Begs Stability
By Matthew Brown and Oliver Biggadike
Bloomberg News
Thursday, October 8, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aPoUCijvAfCk
Asian central banks intervene to slow dollar's fall
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-10-08 09:44 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Roman
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, October 8, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125498941145272887.html
SINGAPORE -- The U.S. dollar continued to tumble against most Asian currencies Thursday, prompting a wave of foreign-exchange intervention by central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Thailand seeking to limit damage to their export industries.
Russia Today interviews Max Keiser on oil trade's dollar dump
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-10-07 20:25 Section: Daily Dispatches7:20p ET Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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