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Former silver market player AIG is starting to look like another Enron

Section: Daily Dispatches

The Sky Darkens for Bondholders

Backfiring Bets on Derivatives,
Corporate Executives' Allegiances
Are Among Worries Raising Risk

By Mark Whitehouse, Gregory Zuckerman,
Henny Sender, and Carrick Mollenkamp

The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

The U.S. credit market is getting riskier.

As hedge funds book losses and the prices of corporate securities
and the derivatives based on them move in unusual ways, investors

Sorcerer's Apprentice time

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Hedge fund rumors knock markets;
Widespread jitters focus on GM, convertible bonds

By Alistair Barr and Kathie O'Donnell
CBSMarketWatch.com
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?
source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BF6DCAC87%2DFC3E%2D4907%
2DBFFC%2D0C73ACA0CC98%7D

Ted Butler: Silver at $7 today is as much a bargain as it was at $5 years ago

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Commodity Strategists: Tice's Auerback Sees $80 Oil

By Sri Jegarajah
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, May 9, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=email_us&refer=commodity_futures&sid=a1Yg1ORMn6oA

SINGAPORE -- Crude oil prices may rise as high as $80 a barrel as
recoverable reserves dwindle, making it harder for producers to meet

Hedge fund rumors knock markets, depress shares of big banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

For several years I had the very good fortune to have been able to
write many articles that laid out my case in urging people to buy
silver at $5 and less. Many thousands of readers had the good sense
to heed that urging and follow that advice. Looking back, there
should be no regrets, save not buying more. Certainly I do not regret

Britain tries to cadge gold from Malaysia via weapons deal

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Citigroup Seeks FSA Deal Over Bond 'Raid'

By Andrew Murray-Watson
The Sunday Telegraph, London
Sunday, May 8, 2005

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;sessionid=DPYXRP5Y4H3KRQF
IQMGCM54AVCBQUJVC?
xml=/money/2005/05/08/cnciti08.xml&secureRefresh=true

Citigroup, the world's largest bank, is ready to cut a deal with the

Wall Street Journal examines the Consumer Price Index''s ''hedonics'' racket

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Malaysia May Use Gold
To Secure Arms Purchases

By Leslie Lopez
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, May 9, 2005

KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian government is considering an arms deal
that calls for it to commit part of the country's gold reserves to
help finance the purchase of warships and other defense equipment
valued at roughly 1 billion, or about $1.8 billion, from BAE
Systems PLC.

The proposed use of Malaysia's gold holdings as collateral for the

The perfect storm that could drown the economy

Section: Daily Dispatches

New and Improved

An Inflation Debate Brews
Over Intangibles at the Mall;
Critics Say U.S. Plays Down
CPI Through Adjustments
For Quality, Not Just Price;
Value of a TV's Flat Screen

By Timothy Aeppel
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, May 9, 2005

WASHINGTON -- To most people, when the price of a 27-inch television
set remains $329.99 from one month to the next, the price hasn't
changed.

Tice''s Marshall Auerback sees oil at $80

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Daniel Gross
The New York Times
Sunday, May 8, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/weekinreview/08gross.html?
ex=1116302400&en=9910a79bde4d33a0&ei=5070

We seem to be living in apocalyptic times. On NBC's "Revelations,"
Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone seek signs of the End of Days. In
the Senate, gray-haired eminences speak of the "nuclear option."

Full speed ahead to another Asian meltdown

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, May 5, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh99650_2005-05-05_22-47-57_n05553518_newsml

NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Thursday it had agreed to
pay $356 million to settle investor lawsuits related to the failure
of Commercial Financial Services Inc.

Dow Jones Newswires interviews analysts who expect gold above $500

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By Hamish McDonald
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Sunday, May 8, 2005

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Full-speed-ahead-to-another-
Asian-meltdown/2005/05/08/1115491044455.html?oneclick=true

HONG KONG -- For Jim Walker, the chief economist at CLSA Asia-
Pacific Markets in Hong Kong, the signs are coming thick and fast.

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