Daily Dispatches

By JACQUIE MCNISH AND WENDY STUECK
Globe amp; Mail, Toronto
Friday, November 8, 2002
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER -- Placer Dome Inc. shares have
been caught up in a torrent of trading as major mining players
mull possible takeover scenarios.

Industry sources said a number of foreign and domestic mining
companies have privately expressed interest in acquiring some

By Sue Thomas

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 8. (Reuters) -- South Africa's second-largest
gold producer Gold Fields on Friday denied market talk that it is
about to make a bid for Canadian peer Placer Dome Inc, but its
share price still fell on investor concerns.

quot;It's a vicious rumour and there is no substance to it,quot; Gold Fields
spokesman Willie Jacobsz told Reuters.

Gold Fields' share price tumbled 8 percent to a late-session low of

Goldman, JPM face 'laddering' action;
SEC cracking down on IPO practice

By Steve Gelsi
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002

NEW YORK -- The Securities and Exchange Commission
notified Goldman Sachs Group and JP Morgan Chase
that it recommended filing civil securities-fraud and
market-manipulation charges against the firms for
directing shares of initial public offerings to clients

Strategists counter market optimists
They advise watching yields, gold, Brazil, and banks

By Thom Calandra
CBS.MarketWatch.com
November 6, 2002

quot;If you don't know who you are,quot; Wall Street author and
trader George Goodman once said, quot;the stock market is
an expensive place to find out.quot;

Not everyone has an identity crisis. Some strategists,
fund managers and investors know exactly who they are