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China says it won''t change dollar''s share in its foreign exchange reserves

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:07p ET Saturday, March 5, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The spring dinner meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education, to be held in New York on
Thursday, May 5, will hear from some of the world's
greatest partisans of gold as it considers economic
freedom and sound money.

* James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money
Report, founder of GoldMoney, author of "The Coming

Doug Casey: Iran is next U.S. target because of its plan to price oil in euros

Section: Daily Dispatches

China Will Not Adjust Dollar Assets
in Forex Holdings, Report Says

From AFX News, London
FXStreet.com
Sunday, March 6, 2005

http://www.fxstreet.com/nou/noticies/afx/noticia.asp?
pv_noticia=1110091907-d8260f08-01693

BEIJING -- China will not adjust the proportion of US dollar
assets in its foreign exchange portfolio despite possible

Marshall Auerback: Last orders for the U.S. dollar?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Doug Casey
Casey Research
February 28, 2005

http://www.howestreet.com/mainartcl.php?
ArticleId=1005&PHPSESSID=652dadc9538956f8dab39dcfb171597e

In recent weeks the news media has been overflowing with reports on
the increasing tension between the U.S. and Iran, supposedly based
on the Islamic country's unwillingness to drop its nuclear

James Turk: After three years, oil is starting to rise in euros too

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Marshall Auerback
PrudentBear.com
Tuesday, March 1, 2005

http://www.prudentbear.com/internationalperspective.asp

"Below the favourable surface [of the economy], there are as
dangerous and intractable circumstances as I can remember....
Nothing in our experience is comparable. ... But no one is willing
to understand [this] and do anything about it. ... We are

Gold EFTs in India won''t have to keep all their metal on hand

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:07p ET Sunday, March 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant
to GATA, reports that oil's price in euros has
begun to rise for the first time in three years,
even as commodity prices generally are rising
sharply. Of course gold is languishing, an
indication of central bank intervention, but Turk

Asian banks reducing share of U.S. dollar deposits, BIS reports

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:20p ET Sunday, March 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The following commentary from the Economic Times
in New Delhi about exchange-traded funds for gold
in India confirms that such funds will not have to
keep on hand all the gold they claim to have and
thus may become new agents of the scheme to
suppress the gold price.

The key assertion by the commentary's author,
Puneet Jain, is this: "While gold fund managers

Bank of Japan will keep easy monetary policy

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Sunday, March 6, 2005

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=topNews&storyID=7818513

BASEL, Switzerland -- Asian banks have reduced the share of deposits
held in U.S. dollars in favour of other currencies like the euro,
according to new central bank data released on Sunday.

The share of U.S.-dollar-denominated deposits placed with Asian

China to keep yuan''s peg to dollar for ''relatively long time''

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Sunday, March 6, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7818579

BASEL, Switzerland -- Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui said on
Sunday that rising oil prices and future currency movements posed
risks for Japan's economy, but repeated he would keep the current

Gold''s heroes will speak at CMRE spring meeting in New York

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Bloomberg News Service
Taipei Times, Taiwan
Saturday, March 5, 2005

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2005/03/05/2003225595

The New Taiwan dollar weakened, snapping an 11-day rally,
after a Chinese-language business daily reported the central
bank may sell the currency to stem its gains.

The NT dollar fell NT$0.087 to close at NT$30.95 against its

Julian Phillips: French gold sales have stopped

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:44p ET Thursday, March 3, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What we might as well start calling the Woertz
Report -- the study just published by the Gulf
Research Center in Dubai -- is already getting
noticed around the world, and GATA has high
hopes for it. The excerpt appended here from
tonight's edition of the HCM Daily Client Market
Letter, published by Harris Capital Management

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