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Thieves outside central banks are lured by metal money too

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Thieves Lured by Shine of Metal Money

Phil Couvrette
CanWest News Service
via Canada.com
Sunday, July 8, 2007

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=8a182135-d605-4aa4-8140-...

Technical analysis at Resource Investor and Market Oracle

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:45a ET Sunday, July 7, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While GATA doesn't think much of technical analysis of the gold and silver markets that doesn't acknowledge central bank intervention, slow news days can make such analysis more tolerable, and reading it can postpone mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, or taking the trash out.

Fledgling gold industry brings hope to ninth-poorest country, Madagascar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jonny Hogg
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Monday, July 2, 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070702/madagascar_gold_fever.html?.v=1

ANTANIMBARY, Madagascar -- For 12 years, Lauren Rakotondramara has been panning for gold on the banks of the Ikopa river in the dry western grasslands of this Indian Ocean island.

S. Africa would extend rand to Zimbabwe in deal for reform

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Basildon Peta
The Sunday Independent, Cape Town, South Africa
Sunday, July 8, 2007

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn2007070...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is preparing a dramatic plan to rescue the shattered Zimbabwean economy by extending the rand monetary area into Zimbabwe, according to sources.

Bernanke's helicopters revving up?

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, July 5, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0587827020070705

BERLIN -- A German motorist surprised by euro notes swirling in the air around her car hit the brakes and collected a "substantial amount of money" before turning it over to police, authorities in Worms said on Thursday.

Colombia reneges on treasure hunters who found $2 billion shipwreck

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Friday, July 6, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070707/ts_alt_afp/colombiausshipwreck_0707...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's Supreme Court has ruled against US treasure hunters who claimed half of the estimated $2 billion in gold, silver, and emeralds aboard a Spanish galleon sunk in the Caribbean in 1708.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: As 'China effect' reverses, inflation threatens

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, July 7, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/07/07/cninfl...

When the prime minister appears on television vowing to "get to grips with inflation," you know that a serious problem is taking shape.

Canadian dollar reaches 30-year high against greenback

Section: Daily Dispatches

By the Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Friday, July 6, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_bi_ge/dollar;_ylt=Agw5VHbX8F3k...

NEW YORK -- The Canadian dollar climbed to a 30-year high against the U.S. currency Friday, bolstered by higher oil prices, a strong economy, and a looming interest rate hike.

Italy adds Bank of America to market-rigging prosecution

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Friday, July 6, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSL0682874920070706

MILAN, Italy -- A Milan judge has ordered Bank of America to stand trial for alleged market-rigging by some of its employees in connection with Italian dairy firm Parmalat's collapse.

Forget futures -- go back to gold's basics

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Myra P. Saefong
MarketWatch.com
Friday, July 6, 2007

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BB5C0738A%2D740E...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Forget gold futures and exchange-traded funds. For the individual investor, there's nothing like the "fondle factor" of bullion.

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