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Wistar Holt: Gold Rush 21 hastens ascent of the precious metals

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:46a ET Sunday, January 29, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Tocqueville gold fund manager John Hathaway has
always been the most careful, restrained, and
yet bullish long-term analyst of the gold price,
and his analysis has been exactly right for a
long time. Hathaway's 2005 review and outlook
report for the fund says:

"As the bull market [in gold] has evolved, so
has my thinking. Four digits no longer seems

Froma Harrop: The inflated Greenspan helped bankrupt America

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:21p ET Sunday, January 29, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA board member Wistar Holt of Holt & Shapard
Capital Management in St. Louis is sending to
his firm's clients the investment letter below,
which credits GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference for
substantially increasing interest in investing
in the precious metals. Holt has generously
allowed GATA to share the letter with you.

Expectations on ETF ruling push silver to 22-year high

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Xinhuanet via ChinaView.cn
Thursday, January 26, 2006

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/26/content_4104470.htm

NEW DELHI -- The Securities and Exchange Board of India, India's
marker regulator, amended its regulations, allowing mutual funds to
launch gold-exchange traded funds (GETF), newspaper Daily News and

Central bank gold sales unlikely to fill quota, analyst says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Chris Flood and Delphine Strauss
Financial Times, London
Saturday, January 28, 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/51b4e430-8fab-11da-b430-0000779e2340.html

Silver set the pace for commodity markets this week, reaching a 22-
year high of $9.76 a troy ounce yesterday, on hopes that a new
exchange traded fund (ETF) would attract significant investor

GoldSeek Internet radio interviews GATA Chairman Bill Murphy

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Andrea Hotter
Dow Jones Newswires
via The Business Online, London
Friday, January 27, 2006

http://www.thebusinessonline.com/DJStory.aspx?
DJStoryID=20060127DN003056

LONDON -- European central banks are highly unlikely to sell the
total 2,500 metric tons of gold permitted under the five-year
Central Bank Gold Agreement, HSBC analyst Alan Williamson said

Murphy''s ''Midas'' commentary for Jan. 27 posted at GoldDrivers

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:38a ET Saturday, January 28, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldSeek has launched its Internet radio operations
with an interview with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy by
Chris Waltzek, which you can find here:

http://radio.goldseek.com/archives.php#BillMurphy

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

India jewelers group leader grouses about gold speculation

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:40a ET Saturday, January 28, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary
at LeMetropoleCafe.com for Friday, January 27, has
been posted in the clear at GoldDrivers.com here:

http://www.golddrivers.com/News/News2006/20060127%
20billmurphyongold.htm

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

India''s securities board approves gold exchange-traded funds

Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones reports tonight about
movement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission in regard to proposals for a silver exchange-
traded fund, and GATA's friend David Morgan of The
Morgan Report is quoted. You can find the Resource
Investor story here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=16457

Bank of Russia allows ''extraordinary'' fall by U.S. dollar against ruble

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rick Carew
Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060124/15/3y4tz.html

BEIJING -- China's State Reserve Bureau, which manages the country's
strategic reserves of commodities including oil, copper and grains,
said Tuesday it would ban its units from trading in a broad range of
financial instruments such as commodity futures, "to avoid more huge

Ted Butler: Too soon for last rites?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar Nosedives vs. Ruble to Late 2000 Level

By Yelena Orekhova
RIA Novosti
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

http://en.rian.ru/business/20060124/43164295.html

MOSCOW -- The U.S. dollar nose-dived against the ruble on the Moscow
Inter-Bank Currency Exchange Tuesday to the level registered in late
2000.

The dollar's swift fall to 27.9898 rubles to the dollar in Tuesday's

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