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Gold ETF attracts $419 million in first three days

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Theodore Butler
Tuesday, November 23, 2004

http://www.investmentrarities.com/weeklycommentary.html

When I first picked the title for this article, I had this
nagging thought that I had used it before. Sure enough,
I looked in the archives and there it was, dated
September 2, 2003. I just think I had forgotten about it

Barrick insists that higher gold prices won''t stop it from reducing hedges

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, November 23, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh36922_2004-11-23_22-20-29_n23115673_newsml

NEW YORK -- A recently launched gold-backed
exchange-traded fund attracted $419 million in its
first three days of trading, bringing its total assets
to $1.3 billion, a research company said on

Is the world getting too short on the dollar? Impossible!

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, November 23, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6898925

(Figures in U.S. dollars)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Today's higher gold
prices won't stop Barrick Gold Corp. from reducing its
hedge book, the world's third-biggest gold miner said

Who will be first to rush for the exit and bring down the dollar?

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:20p ET Sunday, November 21, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold &
Money Report, founder of GoldMoney.com,
and consultant to GATA, has analyzed the
World Gold Council's new bullion fund on
the New York Stock Exchange and found
that it provides no assurance that there is
really any gold behind its shares. Indeed,
Turk finds, the bullion fund acknowledges

Gas market complaints cite failure of U.S. commodity trading regulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar Fall Will Come at a Price for All

By Mike Dolan
Economics Correspondent
Reuters
Sunday, November 21, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6876686

WASHINGTON -- The United States is set to turn a blind
eye to the sliding dollar and a deaf ear to protests about

How to write to the SEC to seek an explanation about the NYSE bullion fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:24a ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This AP story printed in the Miami Herald
last week uses the natural gas market to
raise the same questions Ted Butler long
has been raising about the failure of
regulation of U.S. commodity markets in
regard to silver, where speculative
position limits have been inadequate or
not enforced. But at least some big
customers in the gas market are complaining

Dollar is weak in Frankfurt and strong in Santiago

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:52a ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA supporter Mark Lundeen of Minneapolis may
have been the first to answer James Turk's call
to ask the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission to answer for its approval of the
World Gold Council's exchange-traded fund for
gold bullion on the New York Stock Exchange.

Lundeen has e-mailed to the SEC the letter that
is appended here. The page at the SEC's Internet

The New Yorker discovers and gets snide about gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dan Ackman
Forbes
Monday, November 22, 2004

http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/11/22/cx_da_1122topnews.html

On Friday in Frankfurt, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan hinted, without actually predicting, that
the dollar was getting weaker. On Sunday in Berlin,
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said at the Group

Former MineWeb writer David McKay starts Internet site on African mining

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If the author of this essay in next week's issue of
The New Yorker magazine had put half as much effort
into researching central bank policy -- and finding
the door shut in his face -- as he put into being
snide about gold, he would have been even more
clever than he thinks he is. But maybe it's no
matter; for when gold starts getting mentioned in

John Brimelow: The problem is China, not the dolla

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:35p ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Another journalist from MineWeb has gone off on
his own to start a mining industry news Internet
site, this one with emphasis on Africa. He's
David McKay and the site is MiningMX.com. Their
first home page has a big story about South
African mining entrepreneur Brett Kebble, who
was, incidentally (though it is not mentioned

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