Daily Dispatches

An interview with silver market analyst Ted Butler by James
Cook, proprietor of Investment Rarities Inc. of Minneapolis.

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James Cook: We hear a lot about Asian demand for silver.

Ted Butler: And for good reason. It appears that Asian demand,
particularly from China and India, is impacting every commodity.

Cook: How important are these two countries?

Butler: They have become the main factor in the world of commodities.

Russian Central Bank Gold Holdings May Change Slowly

From RIA Novosti News Agency
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051128/42241821.html

MOSCOW -- The Central Bank may increase the weighting of gold in its
reserves in years rather than months, Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said
Friday.

The comment came after President Vladimir Putin last week called for

7:48p ET Monday, November 28, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two major gold price monitoring Internet
sites, Kitco and Ino, report that gold
broke the $500 barrier at 7:30 p.m. U.S.
Eastern time tonight:

http://www.kitco.com/

http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=FOREX_XAUUSDO

Tan Range Exploration CEO Jim Sinclair

By Le-Min Lim
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=a1x1y3nvHDuU&refer=home

HONG KONG -- Liu Qibing, the Chinese copper trader whose wrong-way
bets left his government with an estimated $300 million in losses,
scored 90 out of 100 in a course on international investing at Wuhan