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To curb inflation, Syria ends dollar peg

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Zainab Fattah and Matthew Brown
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, June 4, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahGpyu4D9xBk&refer=home

DUBAI -- Syria became the second Middle Eastern nation in two weeks to say it will dump its currency's peg to the dollar to curb rising import costs and inflation.

Some bank other than ECB, probably Spain, was selling gold heavily

Section: Daily Dispatches

Central Bank Gold Sales
Seen Lasting Through Summer

By Melanie Burton
Dow Jones Newswires
Monday, June 4, 2007

LONDON -- The European Central Bank said Monday that sales of gold from its foreign exchange reserves announced Friday haven't yet shown up in

UBS affects to be mystified by gold's loss of correlation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:50a ET Monday, June 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk: Probabilities favor rally for gold and silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:41a ET Monday, June 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, says technical and fundamental factors now favor rallies in gold and silver. You can find Turk's analysis and charts in the "Founder's Commentary" box in the third column of the GoldMoney home page here:

Blanchard's Neal Ryan on ECB's suspension of gold sales

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:25a ET Friday, June 1, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

European Central Bank won't sell gold through September

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Claudia Carpenter
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, June 1, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=aLXkYhS5mjKI&refer=c...

LONDON -- Gold rose in London after the European Central Bank said it has no plans to sell more gold through September. Silver also gained.

Ron Paul: The end of dollar hegemony, Part I

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Thursday, May 31, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you may see from the accompanying essay by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, it's unlikely that a modern presidential candidate has ever had as much understanding of history and particularly economic history as is demonstrated here. Delightfully for us, Paul even mentions the international gold-price fixing scheme.

Banks give preferential rates on loans in takeover craze

Section: Daily Dispatches

Banks Are Lending to Private Sector
at Less Than Prevailing Interest Rate

By Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Friday, June 1, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/01/cnbank...

UK banks are taking the unprecedented step of lending to the private equity and hedge fund sector at below the official UK interest rate.

Is Morgan working both sides of credit-insurance derivatives market?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Funds Attack Banks' Aid
for Subprime Borrowers

By Saskia Scholtes
Financial Times, London
Thursday, May 31, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3ae806a2-0fa6-11dc-a66f-000b5df10621.html

NEW YORK -- Hedge funds are attacking bank decisions that help delinquent US mortgage borrowers remain in their homes in a move that pits some of the country's richest people against its least well-off.

GATA sympathizers gather for lunch in Sydney on June 14

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:24p ET Thursday, May 30, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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