Daily Dispatches

GATA and many friends join Vancouver conference in January

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-12-03 15:28 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:30p ET Monday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA returns to Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday and Monday, January 20 and 21, 2008, for Cambridge Conferences' Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.

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Banks urge U.K. corporate clients to stop borrowing

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-12-03 14:59 Section: Daily Dispatches

From Dow Jones Newswires
via CNNMoney.com
Monday, December 3, 2007

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200712021916DOWJONES...

Banks have asked top U.K. corporate clients not to draw on lending facilities to which they are entitled in order to preserve their balance sheets as they approach the financial year end.

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German finance minister blames 'snooty,' secretive bankers

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-12-03 12:05 Section: Daily Dispatches

'Snooty' Bankers Blamed for Crisis

By Ralph Atkins and Bertrand Benoit
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 29, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a9446ae-9ec8-11dc-b4e4-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

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Grandich Letter analyzes metals markets and cites GATA

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-12-03 11:05 Section: Daily Dispatches

11a ET Monday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Grandich's latest letter analyzes the metals and oil markets, mentions GATA, and pays tribute to someone GATA misses dearly, the late Jim O'Connell of Canada's Business News Network. You can find the Grandich letter at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/Grandich/1196698140.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

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Fed looks for new ways to pump more money into banks

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-12-02 23:34 Section: Daily Dispatches

Fed Seeks to Ease Money Market Strains

By Krishna Guha
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 2, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e0543e8-a116-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is considering new steps to make liquidity more readily available to financial institutions in the hope of easing strains in the money market.

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Interbank loan collapse worse in Britain than U.S.

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-12-02 23:26 Section: Daily Dispatches

Pleas for Rate Cut
as Interbank Loans Dive

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, December 3, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=20HPPQFO1501TQFIQ...

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Gene Arensberg: Large commercials hastening to cover gold shorts

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-12-02 20:55 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:55p ET Sunday, December 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gene Arensberg's "Got Gold Report" at Resource Investor advises that large commercial traders lately have seemed to be in a hurry to cover their short positions in gold, even as those positions remain large. You can find Arensberg's report at Resource Investor here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=38391