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Report of Russian firm's bid for AngloGold disputed
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-19 00:09 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Sunday, February 18, 2007
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=allBreakingNews&st...
LONDON -- A source close to Polyus Gold denied on Sunday a newspaper report that Russia's top gold miner had approached Anglo American to buy a stake in Anglo Gold Ashanti.
Stephen Roach: Global TIC-tock
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-18 23:58 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stephen S. Roach
MorganStanley.com
Friday, February 16, 2007
http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/archive/2007/20070216-Fri.html#an...
The US Treasury's latest report on international capital flows came as a shocker. Net foreign inflows into longer-term US securities fell to just $15.6 billion in December 2006 -- the weakest monthly reading in nearly five years. This stands in sharp contrast to America's enormous external financing needs -- about $3.5 billion of foreign capital inflows each business day required to fund a current account deficit that was running at close to an $875 billion annual rate in the first three quarters of 2006. Does an external financing shortfall of this magnitude finally spell trouble for the seemingly Teflon-like US dollar?
Central banks face rising pressures from politicians
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-18 23:43 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Simon Kennedy and Matthew Benjamin
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, February 19, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGMYY0WhtTtg&refer=e...
When politicians tried to pressure former European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, he used to say: "I hear, but I do not listen." These days, a growing number of central bankers worldwide are hearing a lot -- and some are listening.
Richard Russell agrees with GATA: Central banks rig gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-18 23:28 Section: Daily Dispatches11:23p ET Sunday, February 18, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Nine years after LeMetropoleCafe.com proprietor Bill Murphy, soon to start the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, started screaming that the price of gold was being suppressed by collusion on the commodities exchanges, the king of technical analysis of the markets and the most venerable of U.S. financial letter writers, Richard Russell, has fully concurred.
Will U.S. dollar coins build acceptance of monetary debasement?
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-18 13:03 Section: Daily Dispatches1p ET Sunday, February 18, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
While replacing the U.S. dollar bill with dollar coins would be more efficient for the Treasury Department, and while there is plenty of precedent in other countries for it (in Canada and the European Union the smallest paper currency note is for five of the basic currency units), gold and silver sympathizers probably can't help wondering if there might not be more to it in the United States.
Russian miner bids for AngloGold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-18 11:51 Section: Daily DispatchesRussians Covet AngloGold
By John Waples
The Times, London
Sunday, February 18, 2007
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1400181.ece
Russia's Polyus Gold, which is preparing for a London listing, has approached Anglo American to buy its £2.25 billion stake in another mining company, AngloGold Ashanti.
If this were to happen, it would turn Polyus into one of the world's most powerful gold producers. Polyus has indicated it would like to buy part or all of the stake.
John Mauldin: Gold is rising in all currencies
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2007-02-17 18:31 Section: Daily Dispatches6:30p ET Saturday, February 17, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In new commentary, John Mauldin of Millennium Wave Advisers notes, as GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk long has been noting, that gold is now rising in all major currencies.
Mauldin also quotes Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter as acknowledging that someone is trying to cap the gold price at $670 and that "it may be a government." In other recent commentary Gartman has said that he doesn't know who is suppressing gold and doesn't care. This may be construed to mean that he doesn't dare ask. But since Gartman now has acknowledged, in effect, that GATA just MIGHT be right about gold, maybe his apology for years of ridiculing those who have been complaining about the gold price suppression scheme will turn up in Monday's mail.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul: Proposals for transparency at the Fed
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2007-02-17 16:06 Section: Daily DispatchesStatement for Hearing
House Financial Services Committee
"Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy"
Thursday, February 15, 2007
By U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr021507.htm
Transparency in monetary policy is a goal we should all support. I've often wondered why Congress so willingly has given up its prerogative over monetary policy. Astonishingly, Congress in essence has ceded total control over the value of our money to a secretive central bank.
Jason Hommel: Has the IMF admitted GATA is right?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2007-02-16 18:04 Section: Daily Dispatches6p ET Friday, February 16, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Silver Stock Report editor Jason Hommel has reviewed the International Monetary Fund's concern that its rules allow central banks to double-count their gold, to count leased gold as if it is gold still in the vault. Hommel's essay is titled "Has the IMF Admitted GATA Is Right?" and you can find it at Silver Stock Report here:
Ecuador pays bond interest after all, prompting talk of market manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2007-02-16 01:27 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Joanna Chung and Hal Weitzman
Financial Times, London
via Yahoo News
Thursday, February 15, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20070215/bs_ft/fto021520071659174844;_ylt=ApU...
Ecuador's bond market remained volatile on Thursday in the wake of the government's surprise decision to pay interest on its debt as scheduled -- only a few days after it said the payment would be delayed.
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