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Speeches by Fed policymakers may move the markets this week

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:54a ET Sunday, April 4, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you'll see from the news story and press release
appended here, last week some U.S. senators renewed
efforts to subject OPEC, the international oil cartel,
to U.S. antitrust law, and thereby attempt to break
up the cartel and reduce oil prices.

Ordinarily advocates of free markets might endorse the
legislation's intent, apart from any impracticality in

''Midas'' commentary for April 3 posted in the clear at Gold-Eagle

Section: Daily Dispatches

The Fed is back on deck

By Rex Nutting
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, April 2, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BF8F5289E%2D4A22%
2D4FAC%2D93BD%2DBC6AC42676A1%7D&siteid=mktw

WASHINGTON -- There won't be much economic data
released in the coming week to distract investors from
what's suddenly important again: the Federal Reserve.

Jim Sinclair''s gold market summary for Thursday, April 1

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:52p ET Thursday, April 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine I'd encouraged to
invest in gold and silver coins in 2001 called me to say
that she needed to raise cash to repay a debt to her
brother, and she wanted to know what those coins were
worth today so that she might consider liquidating them.

So I called the dealer from whom she had bought the

Gold rush brings smaller miners to American Stock Exchange

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Market Summary for Thursday, April 1, 2004

By Jim Sinclair
http://www.jsmineset.com

Today was a battle royale between the new gold bulls
and the old gold bears as 95 percent of the comatose
gold community sat on the sidelines cheering and
booing the valiant players on both sides.

Regardless of the fact that they oppose the gold
community, the bears showed real guts today between

Jim Sinclair''s gold market commentary for Friday, April 2

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Paton
Reuters
Friday, April 2, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4740818

NEW YORK -- Smaller gold mining companies from abroad
increasingly are planting their flags at the third biggest U.S.
stock exchange in a bid to draw American investors and
capitalize on the gold sector's rising popularity.

An interview with Ted Butler as silver breaks through $8

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Paton
Reuters
Wednesday March 31, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4717350

NEW YORK, March 31 -- Gold mining executives rubbed
elbows on Wednesday at an investor conference on Wall
Street, but in coming months some are likely to come
together in a different kind of way.

''Midas'' commentary for April 1 posted in the clear at FreemarketNews.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:56p ET Thursday, April 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Doug Hornig of Casey Research has written a good
interview of silver market analyst and GATA
consultant Ted Butler, which has been posted at
Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hornig/apr012004.html

As the silver price has broken above $8, a Bloomberg
story about the metal and its prospects is appended.

Do your duty to the free-market cause -- get your real metal (while you can)

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:21p ET Thursday, April 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for
April 1 at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been posted in
the clear in Adobe Acrobat format at
FreemarketNews.com here:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

Yen soars to four-year peak against dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:27p ET Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The column headlines in the chart in Ted Butler's commentary
just dispatched didn't reproduce correctly. The columns are
as follows:

1) Commodity. 2)Gross Commercial Long. 3) Gross
Commercial Short. 4) Short Ratio.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

Concentration in derivatives business is nothing to fear, Morgan executive says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Christina Fincher
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4711805

LONDON, March 31 -- The yen smashed through a key
psychological barrier to hit a four-year high against the
dollar on Wednesday as investors sensed Japan was
scaling back yen-selling intervention going into the new

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