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Here come the currency devaluations to steady U.S. dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Canada Unexpectedly Cuts
Interest Rate as Its Dollar Gains

By Greg Quinn
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=adNteV4cK0jg

Gulf nations maintain dollar peg for currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071204/bs_afp/gulfpoliticssummiteconomy_07...

DOHA, Qatar -- Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council have decided at their annual summit to keep pegging their currencies to the sliding dollar, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said on Tuesday.

GATA and many friends join Vancouver conference in January

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:30p ET Monday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA returns to Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday and Monday, January 20 and 21, 2008, for Cambridge Conferences' Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.

Banks urge U.K. corporate clients to stop borrowing

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Dow Jones Newswires
via CNNMoney.com
Monday, December 3, 2007

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200712021916DOWJONES...

Banks have asked top U.K. corporate clients not to draw on lending facilities to which they are entitled in order to preserve their balance sheets as they approach the financial year end.

German finance minister blames 'snooty,' secretive bankers

Section: Daily Dispatches

'Snooty' Bankers Blamed for Crisis

By Ralph Atkins and Bertrand Benoit
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 29, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a9446ae-9ec8-11dc-b4e4-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

Grandich Letter analyzes metals markets and cites GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

11a ET Monday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Grandich's latest letter analyzes the metals and oil markets, mentions GATA, and pays tribute to someone GATA misses dearly, the late Jim O'Connell of Canada's Business News Network. You can find the Grandich letter at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/Grandich/1196698140.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Fed looks for new ways to pump more money into banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

Fed Seeks to Ease Money Market Strains

By Krishna Guha
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 2, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e0543e8-a116-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is considering new steps to make liquidity more readily available to financial institutions in the hope of easing strains in the money market.

Interbank loan collapse worse in Britain than U.S.

Section: Daily Dispatches

Pleas for Rate Cut
as Interbank Loans Dive

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, December 3, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=20HPPQFO1501TQFIQ...

Gene Arensberg: Large commercials hastening to cover gold shorts

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:55p ET Sunday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gene Arensberg's "Got Gold Report" at Resource Investor advises that large commercial traders lately have seemed to be in a hurry to cover their short positions in gold, even as those positions remain large. You can find Arensberg's report at Resource Investor here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=38391

James Turk: 100 months so far

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:25p ET Sunday, December 2, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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