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Dollar's fall amid interest rate cuts distresses Arab countries

Section: Daily Dispatches

Rules Review FX Union Date
As Fed Rate Cut Splits Gulf

By Souhail Karam
Reuters
via Yahoo News
Saturday October 27, 2007

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071027/137/6mhy3.html

OPEC considers switching oil pricing from dollar to currency basket

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
via Yahoo News
Saturday, October 27, 2007

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071027/137/6mhrn.html

CARACAS, Venezuela -- OPEC is likely to discuss creating a basket of currencies for oil pricing at its next summit due to the steady decline in the dollar, Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Friday.

New IMF transparency rules likely prompted change in U.S. gold report

Section: Daily Dispatches

2a CT Friday, October 26, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The U.S. Treasury Department's acknowledgement of loans and swaps of gold from the U.S. gold reserve, disclosed last week by James Turk of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, appears to have been prompted by the International Monetary Fund's adoption in May of stricter rules for financial transparency for member nations.

Stunning generosity to GATA by two longtime supporters

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:48p ET Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two longtime friends and supporters of GATA came through for us again with stunning generosity this week.

Jamaica hears about the gold price suppression scheme

Section: Daily Dispatches

Whisperings of a Gold Conspiracy

By John Rapley
Jamaica Gleaner, Kingston
Thursday, October 25, 2007

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071025/cleisure/cleisure3.html

Ted Butler: Money for nothing

Section: Daily Dispatches

2a CT Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Commodities advocate Rogers dumping dollars for yuan

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Marcel van de Hoef and Danielle Rossingh
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amQBwDBSDvBE

Jim Rogers, chairman of Beeland Interests Inc., said he is shifting all his assets out of the dollar and buying Chinese yuan because the Federal Reserve has eroded the value of the U.S. currency.

Peter Grandich interviewed by BNN on markets and metals

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:50a CT Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gartman Letter notes Turk's disclosure of U.S. gold lending, swaps

Section: Daily Dispatches

From The Gartman Letter
for Monday, October 22, 2007

http://www.thegartmanletter.com

By Dennis Gartman

IMF chief warns of threat to dollar but doesn't acknowledge its source

Section: Daily Dispatches

6p CT Monday, October 22, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Stories like the Agence France-Presse report appended here are doubly frustrating -- first for the obvious attempt at deception in the comments being reported, and then for the failure of the news organization covering the story to point it out.

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