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New Congress seen likely to favor dollar devaluation
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 12:44 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jephraim P Gundzik
Asia Times, Hong Kong
Saturday, November 18, 2006
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HK18Dj02.html
Last week's sweeping victories for Democrats in the US mid-term elections could prompt significant economic policy changes in the United States over the next 24 months.
Boosting US exports will top the Democrats' economic agenda. In addition to stepped-up efforts aimed at prying export markets open, the 110th Congress may pressure the increasingly pliant administration of President George W Bush to reverse course on exchange-rate policy and encourage the depreciation of the dollar. Intensifying trade disputes, the sliding value of the dollar and weakening US demand could produce a sharp slowdown in Asia's export and economic growth next year.
Dollar will remain primary reserve currency, Fed official tells bankers
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 12:35 Section: Daily DispatchesFed's Fisher Says Dollar
Likely to Stay Main Currency
By Christopher Anstey
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, November 17, 2006
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNFLnbUh1BSU
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the dollar is likely to remain the world's top currency in central bank reserves because of U.S. growth rates and success in containing inflation.
GATA chairman reaches national radio audience in Canada on Saturday
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 11:58 Section: Daily DispatchesBlender Media Press Release
via CNNMatthews
Friday, November 17, 2006
http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&sea...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- "Market Matters," a nationally syndicated radio program on the Corus Radio Network, is featuring Bill Murphy, chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). Murphy will be discussing collusion against a free market in gold, precious metals, currencies, and related securities.
Choking on hedge book, Newcrest stalls payment by 2 years
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 02:07 Section: Daily DispatchesNewcrest Defers Gold Hedges
to Gain Exposure to Spot Price
From Reuters
Friday, November 17, 2006
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061117/3/2t1im.html
SYDNEY -- Australia's Newcrest Mining Ltd. said on Friday it had restructured its hedge book by deferring 1.6 million ounces of gold in order to get better exposure to market bullion prices. The company said the purpose of the restructure was to achieve a better balance of exposure to spot gold prices and to reduce the percentage of production hedged for any one year.
Resource Investor: Court finds Barrick doesn't own Chilean mine property
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 01:30 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jon A. Nones
ResourceInvestor.com
Thursday, November 16, 2006
According to a Chilean news source, El Diario de Atacama, Rodolfo Villar, a local gold prospector and geologist, has won a court ruling establishing ownership to the properties in the 8,600 hectares of land surrounding and including Barrick's Pascua Lama. Barrick is challenging the ruling in the Chilean Court of Appeal.
Vince Borg, senior vice president of corporate communications for Barrick, confirmed this with Resource Investor but said the Villar case is a "nuisance suit."
John Crudele: How you may have kinda saved $392.10
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-11-17 01:21 Section: Daily DispatchesBy John Crudele
New York Post
Thursday, November 16, 2006
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11162006/business/how_you_may_have_kinda_sav...
You will be happy to know that your household costs actually went down in October because of that light truck you didn't buy.
I don't mean to mess with your head this early in the day. But the declining costs of light trucks was a major reason the government earlier this week was able to announce a surprise 1.6 percent drop in producer prices for October.
China doesn't seem to be moving out of the dollar yet
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-11-16 19:15 Section: Daily DispatchesChina not yet moving
away from dollar;
diversification story
masks rise in its
Treasury holdings in 2006
By Wanfeng Zhou
CBSMarketWatch.com
Thursday, November 16, 2006
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?siteid=mktw&guid=%7B17E...
NEW YORK -- China's reserve-diversification story remains very much in the spotlight in the currency market, yet there's little evidence that the world's largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves is selling U.S. dollars, analysts said Thursday.
U.S. is biggest currency manipulator, Chinese researcher says
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-11-16 02:21 Section: Daily DispatchesChina's Trillion-Dollar Dilemma:
What to Do with All that Stuff?
From Xinhua News Agency
China Daily, Beijing
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/15/content_733995.htm
As official data flash up staggering US$1 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, China is debating whether the huge stockpile is a blessing or a burden and what to do with it.
The huge reserves are a reflection of China's economic achievements since reforms began in the 1980s, but observers worry that an excessive, fast-growing stash will endanger currency stability and liquidity.
Silver smashdown imminent
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-11-15 01:46 Section: Daily DispatchesThe warning is the usual disinformation from GFMS.
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Silver to Hit $15/oz
on Investor Demand,
GFMS says
From Reuters
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=fundsNews2&stor...
NEW YORK -- Strong investor buying of silver, fueled by a popular exchange-traded fund, is likely to take the silver price 17 percent higher to $15 an ounce in the next few months despite lower fabrication demand, precious metals consultant GFMS said on Tuesday.
China should 'pick right time' and buy gold, government economist says
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-11-15 01:32 Section: Daily DispatchesThe chart at Kitco suggests that the'right time' was any time in the last five years. ...
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From Reuters
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061115/3/2sw9m.html
BEIJING -- China should buy more gold at the right time as part of a strategy for diversifying its $1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, a prominent government economist said in remarks published on Wednesday.
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