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Got Gold Report: Big traders betting heavily that dollar will recover

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:40p ET Sunday, July 15, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gene Arensberg's new "Got Gold Report" was posted at Resource Investor this afternoon. He says the U.S. dollar is at a critical charting point and the big commercial traders are betting heavily that it recovers. You can find Arensberg's report here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=33882

And maybe the U.S. will buy some Chinese railroad bonds

Section: Daily Dispatches

U.S. Urges China to Buy
Mortgage-Backed Securities

By Josephine Lau
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, July 13, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aE7I.0mnjrSY

BEIJING -- The Bush administration is urging China's central bank to buy more government-backed mortgage bonds in an effort to sustain financing for U.S. home loans.

ECB demotes money supply in inflation forecasts

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ralph Atkins
Financial Times, London
Friday, July 13, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/390b31c4-3099-11dc-9a81-0000779fd2ac.html

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The European Central Bank is taking a more pragmatic approach to its analysis of monetary data -- a move that highlights the evolution of a tradition inherited from Germany’s conservative Bundesbank.

Iran tells Japan to pay for oil in yen

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Megumi Yamanaka
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, July 13, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aONF.HEKx.xU

TOKYO -- Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it is reducing holdings of the U.S. dollar.

John Embry: 'Sovereign wealth' funds will support gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:55p ET Friday, July 13, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment strategist, John Embry, predicts in an essay in Investor's Digest of Canada that the new "sovereign wealth" funds of countries with lots of dollars sloshing around will come to support the gold price. Embry's essay can be found at the Sprott Internet site here:

Spain seizes U.S. treasure-hunting boat off Gibraltar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Brian Reyes
Reuters
Thursday, July 12, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1259580220070712

GIBRALTAR -- Spanish police boarded an American treasure-hunting ship on Thursday that Madrid believes may have taken gold and silver worth millions from a sunken Spanish galleon.

Qatar's gold reserves up 1,500% in year

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Qatar News Agency
via The Peninsula, Doha, Qatar
Friday, July 13, 2007

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&mon...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Qatar Central Bank gold holdings more than quadrupled between January and the end of April, data on the central bank's website showed yesterday.

Kuwait again lets dinar rise to reflect dollar's decline

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
via Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan
Friday, July 13, 2007

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C07%5C13%5Cstory_13-...

DUBAI -- Kuwait allowed its dinar to appreciate against the dollar for a second time this year after the US currency's slide raised pressure on pegged exchange rates throughout the world's biggest oil-exporting region.

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