Daily Dispatches

By David B. Wilkerson
CBSMarketWatch.com
http://cbs.marketwatch.com
Thursday, March 21, 2002

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (CBS.MW) -- Maryland Public Broadcasting
announced plans to replace its long-running "Wall Street Week
with Louis Rukeyser" program with a show co-produced with
Fortune magazine.

The new show will be called "Wall Street Week with Fortune."

1:37a ET Thursday, March 21, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This Reuters story is a few days old but it indicates that
a big fight is brewing in Congress over regulation of
derivatives in the over-the-counter metals markets. How
fascinating that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury
Secretary Paul O'Neill, Senate Banking Committee
ranking member Phil Gramm, and Gramm's wife, Wendy,

11:54a ET Saturday, March 16, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy was interviewed today
on Jim Pupalava's "Financial Sense" Internet broadcast
program. You can listen to it here:

http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2002/Murphy_B.htm

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

From CBSMarketWatch.com
Thursday, March 21, 2002

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- A rise in shares of several metals companies
Thursday prompted the Amex Gold Bugs Index to close at its highest
level in over two years.

Other metals indexes climbed throughout most of the session before
pulling back near the close of trading. Gold futures settled slightly
higher within a recent price range.

In the equities market, the Amex Gold Bugs Index (HUI) stood at

11:54a ET Saturday, March 16, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy was interviewed today
on Jim Pupalava's "Financial Sense" Internet broadcast
program. You can listen to it here:

http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2002/Murphy_B.htm

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

3:18p ET Friday, March 15, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While response to GATA's Chinese initiative has
been overwhelmingly favorable, at least a couple
of our friends complain that we've gone Communist
or anti-American. Not so.

By translating its Internet site into Chinese, GATA
makes no appeal to the government of China.
Rather, we increase our appeal to Chinese speakers
and readers as individuals throughout the world.

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

It is my pleasure to announce one of the most
significant developments since GATA's
inception a little more than three years ago.

Samex Mining of Vancouver, Canada, an
outspoken supporter of GATA, has offered to
sponsor the translation and hosting of GATA's
Internet site, www.GATA.org, in Chinese. The
site will look exactly the same as our

By Thom Calandra
CBS.marketwatch.com
Monday, March 11, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold-timing newsletters are increasing
their recommended exposure to bullion in a move that could
prove prophetic.

The rise in recommended gold-market exposure comes after
a rocky week for gold and gold-mining shares and sharp
losses for the dollar in currency markets. Recommended
gold-market exposure rose to 54.17 percent as of the March

12:50p ET Sunday, March 10, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The annual spring meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education Inc. will be held in New York on
Wednesday, April 3, and feature a presentation by GATA's
consultant James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold and
Money Report and founder of Goldmoney.com.

Turk's topic will be: "Opening the U.S. Treasury Books:

4:34p ET Friday, March 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

TheMiningWeb.com reports that the South African government
has overruled the exclusion of Durban Roodeport Deep CEO
Mark Wellesley-Wood and allowed his return to the country.
TheMiningWeb.com also quotes Wellesley-Wood as saying
that shareholders are calling for changes in the company's
governance. You can read about it here: