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Central banks continue market intervention but at reduced levels

Section: Daily Dispatches

Central Banks Extend Liquidity Provisions

By Chris Flood
Financial Times, London
Monday, August 13, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/737f70f0-497f-11dc-9ffe-0000779fd2ac.html

Central banks continued their battle to restore normal trading conditions to the global money market by injecting emergency liquidity for a third consecutive trading session on Monday.

Currency swap expected from Fed and ECB

Section: Daily Dispatches

Central Banks Seek to Unblock Markets

From the Financial Times, London
Sunday, August 12, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f5124170-4910-11dc-b326-0000779fd2ac.html

Central banks are expected to continue intervening in the money markets on Monday in an effort to unblock the financial system after last week's turmoil.

Gene Arensberg: Big markets worry, gold market sleeps?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gene Arensberg
Resource Investor
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Despite Sean Boyd's help, gold's slumber still mystifies Bloomberg

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Trails Treasuries
as Dollar's Fall
Fails to Ignite Rally

By Pham-Duy Nguyen and Saijel Kishan
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, August 13, 2007

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDBOTFHjF6qY

Gold is going nowhere.

James Turk: The search for a safe haven

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:20a ET Sunday, August 12, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Suddenly investors are learning about counterparty risk, GoldMoney founder James Turk writes in his latest commentary for that gold-brokerage service.

Telegraph: Hedge funds' panic was behind worldwide market collapse

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Helen Power and Dan Roberts
Sunday Telegraph, London
Sunday, August 12, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/12/cnmark...

Panic selling by hedge funds has emerged as the hidden cause of the contagion spreading through the global financial system.

China backs off threats against dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Saturday, August 11, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSPEK13834920070812

BEIJING -- China on Sunday delivered a vote of confidence in the dollar, saying dollar assets form an important part of its foreign exchange reserves and the U.S. currency plays a prominent role in the global monetary system.

Will Paulson ever consent to answer the right questions?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Hey, Hank, Let's Sit Down
and Chat about Things

By John Crudele
New York Post
Friday, August 9, 2007

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092007/business/hey__hank__lets_sit_down_a...

There's news in my fight to get secret information from the U.S. Treasury Department.

Hold onto your seats.

Mike Kosares: The morning after the open-ended bailout

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
www.USAGold.com
Saturday, August 11, 2007

This time it IS different.

In past financial bailouts, the destruction was limited to one or two institutions. A group was put together in the private sector, or the central bank stepped in, and the troubled entity was bailed out.

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