Daily Dispatches

By Edmund L. Andrews
The New York Times
Friday, June 24, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24trade.html

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- For the Bush administration and even for many
members of Congress, China has become almost too big to bash.

A day after one of China's state-controlled oil companies made an

By Pham-Duy Nguyen
Bloomberg News Service
Thursday, June 23, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000080&sid=aXqKxtJ7mmRo&refer=asia

Gold prices in New York rose to a three-month high amid speculation
China soon will raise the value of the yuan against the dollar,
boosting the appeal of precious metals as an alternative to

11p ET Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Please forgive the inadvertent dispatch to you a few
minutes ago of what was meant as a reply to an
individual GATA supporter who had changed e-mail
addresses and wanted to get her new one on the GATA
dispatch list.

With all its hired help, the World Gold Council
wouldn't make a mistake like that -- if only because
the council has nothing to say, but that's another

By Theodore Butler
InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

As discussed previously, the market structure in silver, as defined
by the Commitment of Traders Report (COT), remains in a high-risk
state. Now gold, by virtue of its tech fund-buying rally, has joined
silver in a high-risk state, especially when one extrapolates from
the cutoff date of the recent report.

Admittedly, we are not near historic negative COT extremes in either