Daily Dispatches

Canada dislikes China''s bid for Noranda but shares responsibility for it

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-10-04 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:37p ET Monday, October 4, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Julian D.W. Phillips, editor of the Gold-Authentic Money
newsletter, takes note of the virtual silence about gold
at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington
over the weekend and speculates that the central banks
are not going to be selling more gold after all. You can
find Phillips' commentary at GoldSeek.com here:

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James Turk: Gold is likely to break $430 barrier soon

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gilbert Le Gras
Reuters
Saturday, October 2, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=reutersEdge&storyID=6396190

WASHINGTON -- Many Group of Seven rich nations
and gold-mining powerhouse South Africa are
concerned about a proposal to revalue some IMF
gold to fund debt relief for poor nations,
officials said on Saturday.

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Clive Maund: Expect the explosion just after the presidential election

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:25a ET Sunday, October 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money
Report, proprietor of GoldMoney.com, and consultant
to GATA, has updated his dollar, gold, and yen/gold
charts and concluded that gold's 16-year record of
$430 will be broken on the next attempt and very
soon. You can find Turk's analysis in the "Founder's
Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney

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CMRE''s fall dinner meeting focuses on America''s bankruptcy

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

2:47p ET Sunday, October 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Clive Maund's latest commentary
expresses the increasingly common belief that the
U.S. government will keep the currency markets
calm until the presidential election is out of
the way and then all hell will break loose, with
gold, silver, and commodities breaking upward.
This is especially interesting to GATA for

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Bloomberg gold traders survey is notable for details, not their predictions

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

5:45p ET Sunday, October 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The agenda for the fall dinner meeting of the Committee
for Monetary Research and Education has just been
distributed, and it is hard to imagine a program more
relevant to the financial circumstances of the United
States -- that is, our national bankruptcy. The meeting
also will emphasize where gold, silver, and exchange
rate manipulations fit in.

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Russian central banker cites GATA, says gold market may be less than free

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30p ET Sunday, October 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The weekly Bloomberg News survey of gold traders,
appended here, is interesting not for its predictive
value -- the survey notes that the traders get it
wrong as often as they get it right -- but because
of a few other things:

* It quotes the CEO of Barrick Gold as expecting
inflation to lift the gold price. Having shared

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China rebuffs U.S., refuses to give timetable on letting yuan float

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-10-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

10:13p ET Sunday, October 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Movements in the price of gold are sometimes "so
enigmatic" and central banks and bullion banks are
so involved with it that the gold market may be
less than free, the deputy chairman of the Bank of
Russia says.

The deputy chairman, Oleg V. Mozhaiskov, made the
remarks in a speech at a meeting of the London
Bullion Market Association in Moscow in June, but

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Finance ministers renew calls for ''more flexibility'' in exchange rates

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2004-10-02 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gale Courey Toensing
Waterbury (Connecticut) Republican-American
Friday, October 1, 2004

SHARON, Conn. -- A local woman known both for her
dedication to her family and as an international
philanthropist was killed in an automobile accident
in India on Sunday.

Barbara Sinclair, 63, died when the vehicle in which
she was a passenger was struck from behind by a
truck and crashed into a bus, said Arthur Hahn,