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Barclays pledges to continue silver fund despite price plunge

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kevin Plumberg
Reuters
Friday, April 21, 2006

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?
type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-04-
21T180323Z_01_N21256689_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-RUSSIA-DOLLAR-UPDATE-2.XML

WASHINGTON -- Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on Friday
questioned the dollar's pre-eminence as the world's "absolute"

Dollar may feel sting after G7 complains about China

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Irving
The Times, London
Saturday, April 22, 2006

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9072-2146207,00.html

Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the British investment firm,
insisted yesterday that it would go ahead with a new fund targeting
US speculators in the $60 billion (34 billion) a day silver market,

Who elected those bankers to run the world?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kevin Plumberg
Reuters
Saturday, April 22, 2006

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?
type=businessNews&storyID=2006-04-
22T082045Z_01_ALL229960_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-GROUP-FOREX-20060422.XML

WASHINGTON -- The overall message that markets will take away from
finance officials from the Group of Seven rich nations who met on

Iran reports uranium enrichment deal with Russia

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:24a ET Saturday, April 22, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story appended here is 24 hours out of
date but is notable for showing how both the central
bankers and the news media take for granted the
rigging of currency markets -- indeed, how their
very premise is that currency markets should be
rigged, that central banks should work together but
largely surreptitiously to set all international

IMF claims new powers to police global economy

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press
Saturday, April 22, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear

Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday the
Islamic republic had reached a "basic deal" with the Kremlin to form
a joint uranium enrichment venture on Russian territory, state-run

Worry about the dollar, not the yuan, Chinese central banker says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Lesley Wroughton and Sumeet Desai
Reuters
Saturday, August 22, 2006

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?
type=topNews&storyID=2006-04-22T215117Z_01_N22245674_RTRUKOC_0_UK-
GROUP-IMF.xml

WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund won new powers to
police the world economy after its 184 member countries endorsed a

India''s securities board issues rules for exchange-traded funds in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rex Nutting
CBSMarketWatch.com
Saturday, April 22, 2006

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B9EE8204D%
2D762D%2D41BA%2D87DE%2D2BF4C95FF25A%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

WASHINGTON -- A top Chinese official said Saturday the dollar
represents a greater risk to the global economy than the yuan does.

Moneyweb discovers that it can''t put GATA down

Section: Daily Dispatches

JPMorgan Chase Agrees to Settle Lawsuits

By Eileen Alt Powell
Associated Press
Thursday, April 20, 2006

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060420/jpmorgan_chase_settlement.html?.v=2

NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation's third-largest bank,
has agreed in principle to pay $425 million to settle lawsuits
accusing the institution -- and dozens of other Wall Street

Ed Steer: A last desperate act?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:16a ET Friday, April 21, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

South Africa's Moneyweb awarded GATA some not
entirely grudging respect in its introduction
to its interview with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
this week. You can find the introduction here:

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb_radio/mny_power_hour/252861.htm

Dollar falls as Sweden slashes holdings in half

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:27a ET Friday, April 21, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Board of Directors member Ed Steer has written
some brief but pointed commentary about yesterday's
smashdown in the precious metals. It's headlined
"A Last Desperate Act?" and you can find it at
Financial Sense here:

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2006/0420.html

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