Daily Dispatches

From Pravda Online, Moscow
Friday, October 22, 2004
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2004/10/22/56751.html

The weighted average dollar exchange rate was
29 RUR/USD in the first 90 minutes of trade at a
special session today. Thus, the official dollar rate
for October 23-25 will decrease by RUR0.12. This
is the most considerable one-day drop of the dollar

1:24a ET Monday, October 25, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

"Conspiracies rarely exist," Dennis Gartman wrote
in the September 14 edition of The Gartman Letter,
disparaging GATA's contention that central banks
and bullion banks have been working together to
suppress the gold price.

But Gartman sounded a little different about gold
in his edition of Friday, October 22:

9:19p ET Thursday, October 21, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to GATA supporter Martin Thomas for
noting this chart by Professor Werner Antweiler
of the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, plotting the performance of five
major currencies against gold since July:

http://shmyl.com/ppzison

Looks like the metal is starting to get away

Bulgaria Dig Suggests Rich Past

From British Broadcasting Co.
Friday, October 22, 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3945023.stm

Archaeologists in Bulgaria say they have found hundreds
of tiny gold jewels dating back 5,000 years, possible
proof of Europe's earliest civilisation. The head of
Bulgaria's National Museum of History, Bozhidar