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Argentina''s big gold PURCHASE revealed; more central bank buying said possible

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:23p ET Thursday, August 19, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Report on Business Television in Toronto, which might
as well call itself Radio Free America, continues to
distinguish itself from CNBC in the United States by
allowing guests to mention the suppression of the
gold price.

It happened again yesterday as ROB-TV did a long
interview with Peter Grandich, editor and publisher

Please help GATA by posting its dispatches around the Internet

Section: Daily Dispatches

Argentina ensures gold hits record

By Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Friday, August 20, 2004

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2004/08/20/cngold20.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/08/20
/ixcity.html

Gold prices hit a four-month high yesterday after it
emerged that Argentina bought 42 tonnes of bullion

Freddie Mac gets lawsuit warning from SEC

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Brad Foss
Associated Press
Friday, August 13, 2004

http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040813/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_15

WASHINGTON -- With so much uncertainty roiling
oil markets these days, analysts say one thing is
clear: The world's supply cushion is perilously thin.

Whether the amount of extra fuel that could be
pumped in a pinch is 1 million barrels a day, as

Oil supply cushion has disappeared, analysts say

Section: Daily Dispatches

The higher oil goes while the gold price
stays down, the more apparent the central
bank intervention in the gold market
becomes....

* * *

Myra P. Saefong
CBSMarketWatch.com
Friday, August 13, 2004

Crude oil futures surpassed $46 a barrel to mark
a fresh historic high in New York with traders
unwilling to sell ahead of a weekend packed with
uncertainties related to violence in Iraq, a

You can still watch ROB-TV interview with Sprott Asset Management''s John Embry

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:50p ET Thursday, August 12, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A GATA supporter in Canada, Mark Webber, has
provided an excellent account of the remarks
made this week on Report on Business Television
in Canada by our hero John Embry, president of
Sprott Asset Management and manager of its
gold fund. Webber's account is appended.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

''Midas'' commentary for August 12 posted at FinancialSense.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:35a Friday, August 13, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you've got a media player in your PC and a
high-speed Internet connection, you can
watch Sprott Asset Management President
John Embry's interview this week on ROB-TV
in Canada, at least for a few more days while
it is posted at the ROB-TV archive here:

http://www.robtv.com/shows/past_archive.tv?day=tue

Stunning trade deficit report pushes dollar down hard

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:17a ET Friday, August 13, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary
for Thursday, August 12, at LeMetropoleCafe.com
has been posted in the clear at FinancialSense.com
here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/murphy/2004/0812.html

Note especially "Midas" contributor John Brimelow's

Crude rallies above $46 a barrel to a new historic high

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kyle Peterson
Reuters
Friday, August 13, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=businessNews&storyID=5970501

CHICAGO -- The dollar fell sharply on Friday
following news that the U.S. trade deficit widened
much more than expected in June, calling into
question the health of the U.S. export market and
the broader economy.

Gold''s veterans counsel patience

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Wednesday, August 11, 2004

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040811/minerals_iamgold_goldfields_2.html

JOHANNESBURG -- Gold Fields Ltd. plans to take
control of mid-sized Canadian gold firm Iamgold
Corp. in a $2.1 billion deal which will create the
world's seventh biggest gold miner, the firms said
today.

Omaha World-Herald raises the gold issue and cites GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Thursday, August 12, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD32A1740%2D03F3%
2D4202%2D8182%2DB739DF1C9CAA%7D&siteid=mktw

NEW YORK -- Gold stabs to the much-watched $400
mark, then subsides. And the gold geezers continue
patient.

Patience, in fact, has marked the veterans' approach

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