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Gold demand rises sharply despite price increase

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:55a ET Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ted Butler's new commentary on the silver market
begins this way:

"Still spectacular. That's the only way to describe
the current COMEX market structure, as evidenced
by the Commitments of Traders (COT) report. Not
only have the COTs for silver, gold, and copper
remained in strong "buy signal" territory, the latest

Fed''s frantic money-pumping would compensate for Bank of Japan''s withdrawal

Section: Daily Dispatches

Demand For Gold Up 30%

By Jane Padgham
London Evening Standard
Wednesday, June 2, 2004

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid78950?
source=

Gold was in big demand during the first three months
of this year, despite a sharp increase in its price
triggered by the sliding dollar.

Figures today from the World Gold Council show

''Midas'' commentary for May 31 posted at FinancialSense.com and GoldSeek.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:30a ET Monday, May 31, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney.com, editor of
the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and GATA
consultant, has updated his dollar and gold charts
and found that the dollar has fallen off the precipice
on which he had recently charted it. You can find
Turk's analysis, titled "Trouble for the Dollar," in
the "Founder's Commentary" box at the top left of

Barrick and Placer Dome lead in closing hedges

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:43p ET Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for
Monday, May 31, at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been
posted in the clear at FinancialSense.com and
GoldSeek.com here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/murphy/2004/0531.html

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1086106437.php

James Turk: Trouble for the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:21p ET Sunday, May 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

How does the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee know
that central banks are working with bullion banks and
other financial houses to suppress the price of gold?

We know because of the painstaking research of our
consultants -- Reg Howe, James Turk, Andrew Hepburn,
Mike Bolser, and Bob Landis. They have gone through
the official reports and the footnotes of the Bank for

How do we know that central banks rig the gold market? They TOLD us

Section: Daily Dispatches

A glint of chicanery in the silver market?

By Mike Blahnik
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Sunday, May 30, 2004

http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4799894.html

Is the silver market tarnished?

Hundreds of silver investors passionately believe that
prices have been manipulated downward for years by
a coalition of financial institutions, costing investors

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: A glint of chicanery in the silver market?

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:53p ET Friday, May 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What could be better than a precious metals
conference in Vancouver in June? Only one held
while the gold price is breaking through $400.

You just might get that Sunday and Monday, June
13 and 14, at the 2004 World Gold, PGM, and
Diamond Conference at the Vancouver Convention
and Exhibition Centre.

In any case, if you're there you'll get

Fed fudged accounting after 9/11, Dallas reserve bank head says

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:07p ET Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder, Freemarket Gold & Money Report
editor, and GATA consultant James Turk takes a look
at the housing bubble and finds that it may be
popping. You can find his analysis in the "Founder's
Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney
home page here:

http://goldmoney.com

Coeur d''Alene, Golden Star seek to break up Wheaton River-Iamgold merger

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Crudele
New York Post
Thursday, May 27, 2004

http://www.nypost.com/business/21675.htm

Call the cops: The Federal Reserve broke the law.

It amazes me when people volunteer information that
could get them into trouble. Case in point: Robert
McTeer, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

At the World Affairs Conference last week in Houston,

Richard Appel: Oil may go a lot higher, but for a different reason

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Nicole Mordant
Reuters
Thursday, May 27, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5281148

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Two Canadian mining
firms due to merge next month received separate
unsolicited takeover offers on Thursday from two
U.S.-based miners looking to break up the planned

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