Daily Dispatches

11:15a ET Friday, January 26, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Lawrence Williams writes today at MineWeb:

"A couple of things over the past week have really struck my attention as being very significant, without seemingly exciting much general interest. The first of these was the verbatim report by GATA of a speech by a top Canadian banker. In his address to a dinner in Vancouver, Anthony Fell, chairman of RBC Capital Markets and former president of the Royal Bank of Canada, climbed into the state of currencies worldwide and put forward the place of gold as the safe haven against currency collapse in a big way.

Company Press Release
Thursday, January 25, 2007

http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/displaysens.asp?articleid=354316&Ticker=

JOHANNESBURG -- Gold Fields Limited is pleased to announce that the Western Areas hedge book has been terminated.

The hedge book was terminated at an average spot gold price of US$622.14/oz and a total cost of US$528 million.

Gold Fields inherited the Western Areas hedge book when it took control of Western Areas in December 2006. The hedge book had a maturity profile from December 2006 to December 2014 and consisted of options, with a delta of 1,005,000 gold ounces, and deferred premiums.

11p ET Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The 2-minute, 41-second video promoting sales of the DVD of GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, in August 2005 has been posted at YouTube so that it can be more widely viewed and shared around the world. You can find it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-j7fH7sAo

The DVD can be purchased with a credit card at GATA's main Internet site, www.GATA.org, and at www.GoldRush21.com.

By John Fraher and Will McSheehy
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=ajeGEZzXBwfY

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Kuwait, the third-largest Arab oil producer, may abandon the dinar's peg against the dollar in favor of a basket of currencies to help minimize losses from a weakening U.S. currency.

"We might go to a basket for an interim period," Bader al-Humaidhi, Kuwait's finance minister, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today. "The dollar fell a lot against the euro last year, but if we'd been linked to a basket we wouldn't have suffered" as much.