Daily Dispatches

2:25p ET Monday, December 4, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's Financial Post / National Post in Canada has a wonderful profile of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., GATA's oldest financial supporter among producing mining companies. The company has reaped spectacular success in recent years by avoiding hedging and concentrating on what this profile calls organic growth.

Continuing its support, Agnico-Eagle was a sponsor of GATA's reception at the New Orleans Investment Conference last month. The company has been with us from the beginning, back in the days when it was considered bad for business and before GATA's case was proved and widely accepted. So we're deeply grateful for Agnico-Eagle's principled and fearless work on behalf of the gold cause and delighted with its well-earned recognition here.

OPEC to take weak dollar into account

By Ghaida Ghantous and Karin Strohecker
Rtuers
Monday, December 4, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061204/bs_nm/oil_opec_dc_7

OPEC is worried by a fall in the dollar that is eroding member states' purchasing power and ministers will take up the issue when they meet next week to discuss new output curbs.

On Monday the dollar hit a 20-month low against the euro, punishing producers who sell their oil in dollars, when they buy goods and services from Europe.

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Ben White
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 3, 2006

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto120320061956506824&pa...

America's corporate elite has long upheld a tradition of joining Washington's corridors of power for a new career. JPMorgan executives gave counsel to President Woodrow Wilson during the first world war. President John F. Kennedy asked Robert McNamara, a war veteran who had risen to the top ranks of Ford, to become secretary of defence in 1960.

By Eoin Callan
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 3, 2006

http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/061203/fto120320061053046778.html?.v=1

Hank Paulson, US treasury secretary, will on Monday begin a series of discussions with industry leaders to hammer out the Bush administration's policy towards China ahead of a high-level delegation to Beijing next week.

The former head of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, will on Monday meet executives from manufacturing companies, including Procter & Gamble, before on Wednesday sitting down with financial services companies -- including Citigroup -- as well as those from other sectors.