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Blanchard suit against Morgan withdrawn, apparently continues vs. Barrick

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:44p ET Sunday, June 12, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Free Market Gold & Money Report,
has gotten out his charts for a new analysis about
the gold price. It's titled "Approaching an
Important Breakout" and it says, in part:

"Money is now fleeing all national currencies,
seeking the safe haven offered by gold. It is this

GATA chairman''s speech in Vancouver, and Anne Williamson on the NYTimes

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:36p ET Monday, June 13, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Blanchard & Co., the New Orleans coin and bullion dealer,
has withdrawn its lawsuit against JPMorganChase charging
the New York financial house with manipulating the price
of gold, MorganChase announced today. A brief Reuters
story and the MorganChase press release on which it is
based are appended.

While it's not explicit, the Blanchard gold price

China considers shifting yuan''s link from dollar to group of currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:41a ET Saturday, June 11, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you'll see from the Associated Press story appended
here, the Group of Eight industrialized nations agreed
today simply to cancel $40 billion in debt owed by poor
nations and to do it without reference to the gold held
(or supposedly held) by the International Monetary Fund,
which Britain long had been proposing to sell to

GATA Chairman Murphy leaves U.S. unmolested and expects safe return

Section: Daily Dispatches

China Weighs Modest Currency Change

By Keith Bradsher
The New York Times
Friday, June 10, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/business/worldbusiness/10yuan.html

HONG KONG, June 9 -- China's political leadership is actively
considering breaking the 11-year link between the dollar and China's
currency, the yuan, and tying its value instead to a group of

James Turk: Gold approaches an important breakout point

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:38p ET Sunday, June 12, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Last Wednesday's dispatch about the free compact
disc with an interview of GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy suggested that he was about to have a long
vacation at U.S. government expense at Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba.

This was mere speculation at best, at worst your
secretary/treasurer's attempt at another joke.

In fact, Murphy successfully left the United States

Money for nothing: G8 cancels poor nations'' debt without IMF gold sales

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Associated Press
Friday, June 10, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050610/citigroup_enron.html?.v=7

NEW YORK -- Citigroup Inc., the nation's biggest financial
institution, on Friday said it will pay $2 billion to settle a class-
action lawsuit over its role in the sale of Enron Corp. stock and
bonds before the energy company's collapse that cost investors

Treating U.S. after stock bubble, Fed helped create new threats

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Nicole Mordant
Reuters
Thursday, June 9, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=electionsNews&storyID=8744437

NEW YORK -- Hedging is no longer the black mark against a gold
producer's name that it was a year or two ago as hedged companies
have not gone bankrupt and investors have shifted their gaze to other
pressing industry concerns, two prominent gold industry participants

Citigroup paying $2 billion to settle Enron fraud lawsuit

Section: Daily Dispatches

In Treating U.S. After Bubble,
Fed Helped Create New Threats.

Low Rates Bolstered Economy,
But Housing, Foreign Debt
Appear Out of Balance.

Greenspan's Legacy at Stake.

By Greg Ip
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, June9,2005

By many yardsticks, the Federal Reserve's response to the bursting
of the stock and tech-spending bubbles in 2000 has been a remarkable
success. The 2001 recession was mild and economic growth since has

Newmont''s Lassonde sees gold at $525 by year-end

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:44p ET Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Yes, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and
Washington Post have, for the time being, shut out
GATA and any mention of the central bank scheme
to suppress the price of gold, and you won't see
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy any time soon on CNBC or
even ShopNBC's "Coin Shoppe."

But you can still see Murphy in an exclusive

Barrick is back making excuses for hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, June 9, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh72369_2005-06-09_17-24-25_n09664886_newsml

NEW YORK -- The price of gold should rise to $525 an ounce by the
start of 2006, a top executive of gold giant Newmont Mining Corp.
said on Thursday.

Pierre Lassonde, president of the world's largest gold mining

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