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Gold market said to be too small to handle China''s diversification

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold's get-up-and-go

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch
Monday, January 9, 2006

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?
column=Peter+Brimelow&siteid=mktw&dist=

NEW YORK -- Forget the stock market. Gold's performance during the
four-day first trading week of 2006 was nothing short of stunning.

The precious metal's supporters among investment letters say there's

Bill Bonner: Americans have been liberated from their own houses

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:40p ET Monday, January 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Like so many other news stories, the Dow Jones story
appended here seems meant to discourage investment
in gold, one-sided and studiously avoiding its own
contrary implications.

The story proclaims that the gold market is much too
small to accommodate any attempt by China to diversify
its huge U.S. dollar balance in foreign exchange.

China''s foreign exchange reserve diversification may aim at oil too

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Bill Bonner
The Daily Reckoning
Monday, January 9, 2006

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/DRUS010906.html

"Do you really think the end is nigh?"

We were on the phone with an Irish radio station this morning. We
explained our thoughts:

"You can never know when important trends will turn around, but

Indian commodities exchange touts gold, notes negative U.S. interest rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:18p ET Saturday, January 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary
for January 6 at LeMetropoleCafe.com, remarking
on the likelihood of a "commercial signal
failure" in gold, has been posted in the clear
at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1136782751.php

James Turk: Silver''s potential for price appreciation is greater than gold''s

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:27p ET Friday, January 6, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This is, as the legal jargon goes, neither an offer
to buy nor an offer to sell. It's just damned
interesting. ...

People now can buy silver through GoldMoney.com
just as they have been buying gold there.

GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James
Turk advises:

"The silver our customers purchase is in allocated

Silver''s story is getting out, and another silver savings account

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:59a ET Saturday, January 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, has
written the case for investing in silver -- and thus the
case for GoldMoney's expansion into silver. As usual
Turk's analysis comes with some persuasive charts.

Turk finds that over the last six years silver has
slightly outperformed gold and that silver's biggest

Murphy''s ''Midas'' commentary posted at GoldSeek and GoldDrivers

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:20p ET Saturday, January 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Justice Litle has written a wonderful little essay
about silver for Daily Reckoning's "Rude Awakening"
department. In principle it won't tell you more than
you've heard from Ted Butler but it includes some
great anecdotes and is awfully entertaining. It's
called "Hi-Ho, Silver!" and you can find it here:

China signals switch in reserves away from dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut
Thursday, January 5, 2006

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=15875681&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=565859&rfi=6

West Virginians who want to earn good money but don't have a college
degree have only two choices, the Associated Press reported this
week from the coal mine disaster in Tallmansville: "You either have

Gold gains on speculation that central banks could turn buyers

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Geoff Dyer and Andrew Balls
Financial Times, London
Thursday, January 5, 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f39fa8e4-7e25-11da-8ef9-0000779e2340.html

China indicated on Thursday it could begin to diversify its rapidly
growing foreign exchange reserves away from the US dollar and
government bonds -- a potential shift with significant implications

Ted Butler pounds the shorts, Barrick Gold and Apex Silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Heads for Weekly Gain
on Speculation Central Banks May Buy

By Tan Hwee Ann and Danielle Rossingh
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, January 6, 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000082&sid=aqp8QX1cmzrY&refer=canada

Gold headed for a second consecutive weekly gain in London on
speculation that central banks, the biggest holders of the metal,

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