Daily Dispatches

Ted Butler: Concentration foretells silver explosion

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2007-06-13 00:48 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:45a ET Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In an interview with James Cook of Investment Rarities, silver market analyst Ted Butler elaborates on the heartening changes under way in the silver market, whose increasing concentration foretells an explosion. The interview with Butler is posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

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Peter Brimelow: Gold moves fuel cartel theories

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2007-06-13 00:30 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B8135A85E%2D0D00...

NEW YORK -- A bad day for stocks -- and for gold, which closed Tuesday in New York at $647.10, down over $7 on the day and sharply down from its April lunge at the $700 level.

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Chinese bank would expand into U.S. and Russia

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-06-12 23:02 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jamil Anderlini
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3b314b7a-1913-11dc-a961-000b5df10621.html

HONG KONG -- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest lender, has applied for banking licences in the US and Russia as it seeks to expand outside its home market, the bank's chairman said on Tuesday.

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Greenspan: China won't sell U.S. bonds ... because no one would buy!

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-06-12 22:42 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
Reuters
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1228045520070613

NEW YORK -- There is little reason to fear a wholesale pullout by China out of U.S. government bonds, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday.

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Al Korelin interviews Peter Grandich on gold manipulation and GATA

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-06-12 01:11 Section: Daily Dispatches

1a ET Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Syndicated radio broadcaster Al Korelin of the Korelin Economics Report interviewed market analyst Peter Grandich on Monday and they talked a lot about manipulation of the gold market and GATA's work exposing it. You can listen to the program at the Korelin site here:

http://www.kereport.com/DailyRadio/Daily061107.mp3

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Reg Howe: Gold derivatives -- Chinese torture

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-06-12 00:16 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:16a ET Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Treasury warns hedge funds -- even as it won't regulate them!

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-06-11 21:04 Section: Daily Dispatches

US Treasury Warns
on Hedge Fund Risk

By Jeremy Grant
Financial Times, London
Monday, June 11, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f17837dc-184a-11dc-b736-000b5df10621.html

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BIS warns about explosion in debt for takeovers

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-06-11 20:57 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/11/cnbis1...

The Bank for International Settlements has warned that the current takeover boom across the world is being funded by ever greater levels of debt, storing up trouble should rising inflation lead to a sharp rise in interest rates.