Daily Dispatches

Link Between Treasury Yields
and Dollar Is Questioned

By Steve Johnson
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Two leading investment banks on Wednesday questioned whether rising
US Treasury yields would increase the attractiveness of the dollar,
even as the US currency rose on the back of rising US inflation
concerns.

"We question how much support the dollar will get from rising US

12:26a ET Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

"Every profession," George Bernard Shaw
remarked, "is a conspiracy against the
laity." And it seems that every meeting
of central bankers is a conspiracy
against the currency markets.

Gold and silver prices are routinely
listed with currency prices because the
precious metals are supra-national
currencies. So if central bankers often

By David McKay
MiningMx.com
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

DRDGOLD has today applied to liquidate its operating
shafts in South Africa's North West province (Blyvoor
and Harties) in a step that saves the group from
bankruptcy but cedes a third of its 15 million in gold
reserves.

The decision is likely to stir the ire of unions, as
some 5,600 jobs have been placed in jeopardy.

The application to liquidate the mines also opens the

New Report on Gold Market
By Veneroso Vindicates GATA

GATA press release via Business Wire
Monday, March 21, 2005

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?
ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050321005333&newsLang=en

Frank Veneroso, perhaps the world's foremost gold market analyst,
has written a new study of the market that the Gold Anti-Trust