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James Grant: Gold joins the mainstream

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Grant
Forbes magazine
June 18, 2007
www.forbes.com

Once upon a time gold was the sanctuary of nonconformists, visionaries, contrarians, idolators and cranks. And the gold price moved accordingly. If stocks went up, bullion went down, and vice versa. Which is to say, as the financial theoreticians say, that gold was an uncorrelated asset.

Michael Kosares: Turning point?

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:45p ET Monday, June 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Michael Kosares, proprietor of Centennial Precious Metals in Denver and host of the firm's wonderful forum at USAGold.com, has put together a summary of some recent interesting commentaries on the currency and precious metals markets. It is titled "Turning Point?" and you can find it at GoldSeek here:

James Turk: Measured in gold, stock market gains are illusory

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:40p ET Monday, June 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk notes that recent U.S. stock market gains are illusory when measured in gold rather than the declining U.S. dollar. His commentary "What New Record?" can be found at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/commentary/turk.htm

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

GATA sympathizers invited to lunch in Canberra on June 11

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:25p ET Monday, June 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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.

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