Daily Dispatches

By Steve Whitehouse
AFX News
March 31, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/03/31/afx2636295.html

FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank said it has sold 57 tons of
gold as part of the 2004 central bank gold sales agreement.

But it said it does not plan any further gold sales in the next six
months.

8:47a ET Thursday, March 30, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report,
has recast his chart of the gold-silver price
ratio and concludes that "there is just too much
momentum underpinning the metals for them to stop
now."

Turk adds: "After all, what would you rather own?
Gold/silver or paper? Sound money or a rapidly

Chief of Staff Is Expected
to Shake Up 2 Key Teams

By Elisabeth Bumiller
The New York Times
Thursday, March 30, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/politics/30bush.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Joshua B. Bolten, the incoming White House
chief of staff, is expected to press President Bush to assemble new

By Alison Guerriere Ciaccio
Dow Jones Newswires
Friday, March 31, 2006

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060330/15/3zr0c.html

NEW YORK -- The World Gold Trust Services has its sights set on Asia
and the Middle East for the next roll-out of its highly successful
gold exchange-traded fund after gaining large market share in the
U.S. since the streetTRACKS Gold Shares ETF was launched in November