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Dollar falls most against Asian currencies amid revaluation talk

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:51p ET Thursday, October 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary
for today at LeMetropoleCafe.com, "An Exposed
and Dying Scheme," has been posted in the clear
at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1097247753.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Are fledgling silver barons tomorrow''s leaders?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar off vs. Asia on persistent China speculation

By Jamie McGeever
Reuters
Friday, October 8, 2004

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh86071_2004-10-08_17-50-53_n08487080_newsml

NEW YORK -- The dollar tumbled across the board
following a below-consensus U.S. jobs report on

ResourceInvestor.com opens with interview with U.S. Global Investors chairman

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dorothy Kosich
MineWeb
Thursday, October 7, 2004

DENVER -- The heads of the pure silver companies
were hard to miss at the Denver Gold Forum
because they are edgy and provocative. They're ...
well, different.

Just by their presence at a "gold" forum, these new
millennium "silver barons" defy a truism that when
the world's most powerful currency stumbles,
investors will only turn to gold. These invaders of

American Stock Exchange creates Gold Miners Index

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:50p ET Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Keith Barron, editor of Straight Talk on Mining,
harkens to a 16-year-old book, Kenneth Ackerman's
"The Gold Ring," in a new essay posted at
Gold-Eagle, "Gold Manipulation -- Nothing New
Under the Sun." Barron notes that gold has been
the target of unscrupulous traders throughout
history, and he describes the corner worked on

Dallas Fed president says dollar has to weaken

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:12p ET Thursday, October 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The American Stock Exchange has announced its
creation of a gold and silver mining company
index, the Amex Gold Miners Index, which will
trade under the symbol GDM. GoldSeek has the
story and a chart showing the composition of
the index. You can find it here:

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1097209403.php

Foreign central banks reduce U.S. government debt holdings

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Reuters
7:28p ET Thursday, October 7, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6446137

NEW YORK -- The widening U.S. current account
deficit will require a decline in the value of
the dollar, a top Federal Reserve official said
on Thursday.

Dallas Fed President Robert McTeer said there were

If you read The Gartman Letter, this stuff doesn''t happen

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, October 7, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh67727_2004-10-07_20-30-18_nat001004_newsml

NEW YORK -- Foreign central banks became sellers
of U.S. Treasuries in the latest week, cutting into
the annual pace of their accumulation of U.S. debt,
the Federal Reserve reported on Thursday.

First Silver Reserve starts holding its cash in silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

"Conspiracies rarely exist."
-- Dennis Gartman in The Gartman Letter, September 14, 2004

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4 Ex-Traders Plan to Enter Guilty Pleas;
False Gas Data at El Paso Corp. Led to Charges

By Tom Fowler
Houston Chronicle
Wednesday, October 6, 2004

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2834535

Clive Maund: No stopping gold if the dollar caves in

Section: Daily Dispatches

Company Press Release
Thursday, October 7, 2004

http://biz.yahoo.com/ccn/041007/8eb82f3dcd4211be7b6d5f25592342a5_1.htm
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- First Silver Reserve Inc.
(FSR on the Toronto Exchange) today announced that the
ccompany has invested a portion of its cash assets in
silver.

This silver was purchased in early September at prices

LeMetropole Cafe''s ''Midas'' commentary for Oct. 7 posted in the clear at GoldSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:53p ET Thursday, October 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As we await tomorrow's announcements that all
those thousands of people laid off by AT&T and
Bank of America have just found jobs in the
U.S. Army's expeditionary force being sent to
Iran (yes, that's an "n," not a "q"), that
Osama bin Laden has been captured while working
the phones at Kerry campaign headquarters in

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