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Ted Butler: All into silver now
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-05-24 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesChina Told by US to Revalue Renminbi by 10%
By Andrew Balls
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/69e55622-cbc3-11d9-895c-00000e2511c8.html
WASHINGTON -- The US Treasury has told the Chinese authorities that
they must revalue their currency by at least 10 per cent against the
GATA distributes press release on sharp rise in gold price-capping derivatives
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-05-23 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:49a ET Sunday, May 22, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report,
has drawn on research by GATA's Mike Bolser and
Reg Howe to report that government intervention
against the gold price has exploded since the
middle of last year.
Turk also finds that while gold has been having
trouble lately against the U.S. dollar, it is on
BIS data shows sharp rise in government intervention against gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2005-05-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches5:35p ET Saturday, May21, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If you'd like some encouragement, consider
these new essays.
-- Frank Barbera at FinancialSense.com, "'Da
Bottom' for Gold Stocks?":
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/barbera/2005/0519.html
Or try this abbreviated link:
Some encouragement for gold and silver investors
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2005-05-21 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9a ET Friday, May 20, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A couple of items possibly of special
interest. ...
MiningMX's Greta Steyn examines the rapidly
alternating mood on the prospects for the U.S.
dollar. Her report is headlined "Dollar to
Resume Weakness" and you can find it here:
The schizophrenic dollar, and U.S. bloc''s gold reserves likely exhausted
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2005-05-20 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches4:16p ET Friday, May 20, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA isn't in the investment advice business and the
commentary that follows is investment advice to a
large extent, but it also shows how the gold market
is manipulated even without the intervention of the
central banks, and so it is relevant to GATA's work.
If you want to take some encouragement from it for
investment purposes, that's your business. GATA sure
Gold market is manipulated even before central banks get involved
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2005-05-19 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:35p ET Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In his new essay "Pirates Reprise," Ron Kirby reports
that the U.S. Treasury Department has quietly altered
its records of the U.S. government bonds held by
foreign entities. As a result, the value of bonds
reported held by Japan and China has fallen sharply
while the value of bonds reported held by Britain and
Caribbean banks has risen just as sharply.
Bush administration may ask Greenspan to stay at Fed after term expires
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2005-05-18 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Robert Schroeder
CBSMarketWatch.com
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?
source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B95360032%2DDDDA%2D4238%
2D9604%2DF0FF7B7765EE%7D
WASHINGTON -- President Bush nominated Reuben Jeffrey on Tuesday to
be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Altered U.S. bond holdings data gives the game away
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2005-05-18 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesAdministration Considers
Delaying Fed Chief's Exit;
An Extra Few Months Would Give
Greenspan the Longest Tenure
By Nell Henderson
Washington Post
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan frequently urges Americans
to postpone retirement and stay on the job longer.
He may soon get the chance to do so himself.
Bush administration officials are mulling whether to encourage
Adjustable and interest-only mortgages constitute 2/3rds of new home loans
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-05-17 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jim Sinclair
Monday, May 16, 2005
Chinese and Japanese holdings of U.S. Treasury instruments declined
in April. Someone should tell the U.S. media because this
development is earth-shaking in a financial sense.
Clearly the most important news of the day got little play in the
financial media. The Treasury International Capital (TIC) report
U.S. warns China to overhaul currency system
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-05-17 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesConcerns Mount About Mortgage Risks
Latest Data Show Move Toward Alternative Loans
Is More Pronounced Than Previously Thought
By Ruth Simon
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
In the latest sign of how frothy the housing market has become, new
data show the degree to which people are stretching to buy homes in
a hot housing market.
The data, from the Mortgage Bankers Association, show that