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Still more efforts to talk the dollar back up

Section: Daily Dispatches

All That Glitters is Gold, Not the Dollar

By Steven Vames and Gavin Maguire
Dow Jones Newswires
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041129/15/3owoq.html

NEW YORK -- In recent months, it's been the golden
rule, so to speak: The dollar keeps hitting historic lows
and gold keeps hitting historic highs.

It's a relationship that typifies the gold market in times

Still more efforts to talk the dollar back up

Section: Daily Dispatches

Japan May Intervene Soon
To Prop Up Dollar: Report

From Reuters
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=6945722

NEW YORK -- Japanese monetary authorities may
be spurred to intervene to prop up the dollar once the
U.S. currency falls below 102 yen, according to a

Teasury Secretary Snow likely won''t be kept on long, Washington Post suggests

Section: Daily Dispatches

Japan May Intervene Soon
To Prop Up Dollar: Report

From Reuters
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=6945722

NEW YORK -- Japanese monetary authorities may be
spurred to intervene to prop up the dollar once
the U.S. currency falls below 102 yen, according
to a report from New York-based consultants Medley

Richard Daughty: The gold bug in all of us

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bush to Change Economic Team;
Candidates Likely To Be From
Outside The Administration

By Mike Allen
Washington Post
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18599-2004Nov28.html

President Bush plans to overhaul his economic team
for the second time in two years and wants to tap

China urged to develop gold market for asset protection, not speculation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Mogambo Guru
(a.k.a. Richard Daughty)
DailyReckoning.com
Monday, November 29, 2004

Alert reader Jim E. sent me a New Yorker article by a
guy named James Surowiecki who has written an
interesting article: "Why Gold?" Jim thought the guy
was the "dumbest SOB that ever lived" and of course
I was excited to hear about a guy who was a bigger
and dumber SOB than me!

Lawsuits seeking billions from U.S. companies in South Africa dismissed

Section: Daily Dispatches

Giving Gold a Foreign Touch

By Yu Qiao
China Daily, Beijing
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/30/content_395899.htm

An executive of Shanghai Gold Exchange yesterday
said that China's sole national gold bourse has made
submissions to the central bank to attract foreign

Lack of growth in Wal-Mart sales stokes fears about U.S. recovery

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Doug Noland
PrudentBear.com
Friday, November 26, 2004

http://www.prudentbear.com/creditbubblebulletin.asp

Dear Mr. Dollar:

I have for some time expounded your shortfalls and
frailties.And now, with your soundness and future
status having been elevated to the crucial issue in
global markets and economics, it is appropriate that

Dan Denning: Gold and Gravity

Section: Daily Dispatches

Wal-Mart Sales Stoke Recovery Fears

By James Politi in New York
and Chris Giles in London
Financial Times, London
Sunday, November 28, 2004

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/40804c8c-4172-11d9-9dd8-00000e2511c8.html

Worries about the sustainability of the US economic
recovery were stoked on Sunday after the stores

Currency markets may be volatile this week amid heavy U.S. data, speeches

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Sunday, November 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This essay by Dan Denning of DailyReckoning.com is
a few days old but still notable for adding to the
puzzlement of contrarians about the prevailing
opinion about gold. Is it that gold is explosive,
or that it is due for a sharp and relatively brief
decline before resuming a powerful rise?

Denning does seem to represent the prevailing

NY Times: Foreign interest appears to flag as dollar falls

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar Drops Further as Central Banks Reassess Reserves

By Eric Pfanner
International Herald Tribune
at The New York Times
Friday, November 26, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/business/26dollarcnd.html?oref=login

LONDON -- The falling dollar reached new depths against
the euro today, after a weeklong erosion of value prompted

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