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James Turk: We're almost there

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:25a ET Monday, October 29, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Will trick or treat for Wall Street be the dollar's 'Halloween'?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Stocks Hope for a Halloween Rate Cut

By Cal Mankowski
Reuters
Sunday, October 28, 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071028/column_stocks_outlook.html?.v=1

NEW YORK -- Wall Street expects a two-day Federal Reserve meeting this week to end with another cut in interest rates as financial firms struggle with losses tied to subprime mortgages and related securities.

Technical analysis of gold market increasingly acknowledges manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:40p ET Sunday, October 28, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Technical analysis of the gold market increasingly is acknowledging government-backed manipulation.

China encourages its banks to look for overseas targets

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Sunday, October 28, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSPEK13985120071028

XIANGHE, China -- China will push its banks to forge deeper into overseas markets for acquisitions and a global profile, a top bank regulator said on Sunday.

China opens another copper mine in Zambia

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Xinhua News Agency
via China Daily, Beijing
Sunday, October 28, 2007

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-10/28/content_6211525.htm

China opened another copper mine in Zambia, Non-Ferrous China Africa (NFCA) of China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation (CNMC) announced in Kitwe, Zambia, on Saturday.

Ed Steer: Larry Lindsey lays it on the line

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ed Steer
for Casey Research
www.CaseyResearch.com
Friday, October 26, 2007

One of the speakers I was particularly interested in hearing at the New Orleans Investment Conference this year was Larry (Lawrence) Lindsey, the former economic adviser to President George Bush in the early years of his first term in office.

Dollar's fall amid interest rate cuts distresses Arab countries

Section: Daily Dispatches

Rules Review FX Union Date
As Fed Rate Cut Splits Gulf

By Souhail Karam
Reuters
via Yahoo News
Saturday October 27, 2007

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071027/137/6mhy3.html

OPEC considers switching oil pricing from dollar to currency basket

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
via Yahoo News
Saturday, October 27, 2007

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071027/137/6mhrn.html

CARACAS, Venezuela -- OPEC is likely to discuss creating a basket of currencies for oil pricing at its next summit due to the steady decline in the dollar, Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Friday.

New IMF transparency rules likely prompted change in U.S. gold report

Section: Daily Dispatches

2a CT Friday, October 26, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The U.S. Treasury Department's acknowledgement of loans and swaps of gold from the U.S. gold reserve, disclosed last week by James Turk of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, appears to have been prompted by the International Monetary Fund's adoption in May of stricter rules for financial transparency for member nations.

Stunning generosity to GATA by two longtime supporters

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:48p ET Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two longtime friends and supporters of GATA came through for us again with stunning generosity this week.

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