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''Midas'' commentary for October 10 posted at GoldSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:25p ET Sunday, October 12, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What purports to be a Reuters story from London last
Thursday, appended here, forwarded by a GATA supporter
in Europe, does not seem to be available at the Reuters
Internet site, though many other stories by the author of
this story are available there. So either your
secretary/treasurer has botched his use of the Reuters
search mechanism, Reuters inadvertently omitted posting

GATA reception in New Orleans features Veneroso, Embry, Wellesley-Wood

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:13p ET Sunday, October 12, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's quot;Midasquot; commentary from
Friday, October 10, at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been
posted in the clear at GoldSeek.com:

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

Gold''s upward trend is intact, breakout likely within two months, Turk says

Section: Daily Dispatches

Putin's idea to price oil in euros may hurt dollar

By Carola Hoyos and Christopher Swann in London
and Andrew Jack in Moscow
Financial Times
Friday, October 10, 2003

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After weeks of being battered on the foreign exchanges, the

Financial Times reports on Russia''s flirtation with the euro

Section: Daily Dispatches

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WASHINGTON (Agence France-Presse) -- The US
administration has embarked on a risky strategy to
bring down the value of the dollar as part of an
effort to keep a fragile economic recovery on track.

Analysts say the US effort could alleviate some

Welcome to the weak dollar policy

Section: Daily Dispatches

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YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Oct. 8 (Reuters) -- A German
government source said on Wednesday that Russia may
switch to pricing oil sales in euros rather than dollars,
potentially huge news for financial markets.

However, Russian energy and finance ministry officials
said they were unable to confirm any change was planned.

Russia may switch oil pricing to euros, German source says

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:24a ET Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

CBSMarketWatch Editor Thom Calandra's latest
quot;StockWatchquot; column is an interview with
Ashanti Gold CEO Sam Jonah, and may be
especially interesting for Jonah's remark that
the International Monetary Fund is discouraging
the government of Ghana from investing in new
gold mines.

You can find Calandra's column here:

Central banks declare they''ll do anything to stop free market but nobody gets it

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:29p ET Monday, October 6, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

South African gold market analyst Victor Hugo has produced
as complete an endorsement of GATA's work as we've gotten.
He writes tonight:

quot;After weeks of work to get up to the $380s, just about every
precious metals trader I talk to confirms that the footprints
and timing of price action in recent weeks suggest massive

IMF discourages gold mining investment in Ghana, Ashanti CEO tells Calandra

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stella Dawson
Chief ECB Correspondent
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FRANKFURT, Oct. 6 (Reuters) -- European policymakers
warned on Monday against too rapid foreign exchange
movements, in what analysts called an attempt to slow
the euro's rapid ascent against the dollar.

Gold has ''powerful enemies,'' Financial Post observes in passing

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:53p ET Sunday, October 5, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney
and editor of The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report, has
written a detailed description of how the U.S. government
ran the stops in the gold market on Friday and how it
intervenes in the gold market generally. Turk also has
discovered new discrepancies in the gold accounting by

Lots of good reading tonight -- and a happy ending to Friday''s rout of gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:23p ET Monday, October 6, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This article from Canada's Financial Post is interesting
for acknowledging, in passing, that gold has quot;powerful
enemies.quot; The author doesn't go into details, but he may
have figured that this was the most he could get published
at the moment without risking transfer to the sewer
commission beat and that you could figure it out.

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