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Hedge funds are short copper, not long; Barclays says metal stocks low
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2006-10-02 08:52 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, October 2, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/10/02/ccview...
Arrayed on one side of the commodity debate are the ivory-tower economists and perma-bears, all warning that the four-year boom is over -- with worse to come. On the other are the traders and specialists who live and breathe the stuff every day, convinced that the market is tighter across the spectrum of metals and energy than outsiders realise.
China's central bank chief reaffirms growing 'flexibility' for yuan
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-10-01 18:01 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom The Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Sunday, October 1, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_bi_ge/china_currency_1
The flexibility of China's currency is gradually being expanded as the influence of market forces grows stronger, the nation's central bank chief said.
In an interview to be published in Monday's edition of the Chinese-language Caijing magazine, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan reaffirmed China's principle of carrying out gradual foreign exchange reform, and said the importance of the basket of currencies to which the yuan is referenced will diminish.
James Turk: The commodity 'cycle' is not over
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-10-01 10:52 Section: Daily Dispatches10:51a ET Sunday, Ocober 1, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, gets out his charts to dismiss suggestions that commodities are finished. In "The Commodity 'Cycle' Is Not Over," Turk writes:
"Both gold and silver have a long way to climb before the bull market that is driving all commodities higher breathes its last breath. The reason is simple. People are exiting the dollar, and they will continue to do so until the problems adversely affecting the dollar are fixed -- and no one is taking steps to do that."
NYTimes: Change in Goldman index played role in gasoline price drop
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-09-30 12:09 Section: Daily DispatchesAs reported a week ago by Bill King in The King Report, redistributed by GATA:
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Change in Goldman Index Played Role in Gasoline Price Drop
By Heather Timmons
The New York Times
Saturday, September 30, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/business/30trading.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
LONDON, Sept. 29 -- Politics and worries about oil supplies may have caused gasoline prices to go up at the pump earlier this year, but one big investment bank quietly helped their rapid drop in recent weeks, according to some economists, traders, and analysts.
Is silver ETF preparing to clean out Comex or just divert demand?
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-09-30 11:42 Section: Daily Dispatches11:36a ET Saturday, September 30, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, reports that the iShares Silver Trust exchange-traded fund operated by Barclays Global Investors, which claims to hold 104 million ounces of silver, is preparing to buy about 150 million more ounces:
http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1159546321.php
That that would be about 50 million more ounces than were reported held by the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday:
ROB-TV interviews Jay Taylor on mining stocks
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 23:27 Section: Daily Dispatches11:21p ET Thursday, September 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's friend Jay Taylor, editor of J. Taylor's Gold and Technology Stocks letter, was interviewed about mining stocks for an hour Monday on "Market Call Tonight with Michael Hainsworth" on Canada's ROB-TV, and you can watch the show until next Monday at the ROB-TV archive here:
Jim Sinclair interviewed on gold by Bloomberg TV
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 21:42 Section: Daily Dispatches9:22p ET Thursday, September 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Our friend Jim Sinclair, chairman of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration and proprietor of JSMineSet.com, was interviewed for eight minutes Wednesday on Bloomberg Television. Among his major points:
-- Gold isn't a religion but a currency and is primarily the inverse of the U.S. dollar.
-- The dollar is at a critical level and the U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund is likely defending it here.
Regulators urge international action on derivatives
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 20:58 Section: Daily DispatchesCentral banks and financial houses will work together to fix troublesome markets
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Regulators Urge Joint Action on Derivatives
By Gillian Tett and Anuj Gangahar
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7af25f72-4e54-11db-bcbc-0000779e2340.html
Three of the world's most powerful financial regulators have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint warning that individual nations cannot contain some of the risks posed by the explosive growth of derivatives and must collaborate across borders.
You're invited to GATA's reception during the New Orleans Investment Conference
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 23:52 Section: Daily Dispatches11:47p ET Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee invites its friends to an evening reception in a historic setting during and just a few blocks from the 2006 New Orleans Investment Conference:
Saturday, November 18, 2006
7-9 p.m.
Latrobe's on Royal
403 Royal St.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tickets: $30 per person
Complimentary beer, wine, and hors d'oeuvres
Treasury irked that somebody else may be rigging markets
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 23:30 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilin...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. financial regulators are concerned by an increase in instances of firms trying to profit from controlling a particular Treasury security, a Treasury official told a bond market group on Wednesday.
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