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NYTimes: Change in Goldman index played role in gasoline price drop
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-09-30 12:09 Section: Daily DispatchesAs reported a week ago by Bill King in The King Report, redistributed by GATA:
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Change in Goldman Index Played Role in Gasoline Price Drop
By Heather Timmons
The New York Times
Saturday, September 30, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/business/30trading.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
LONDON, Sept. 29 -- Politics and worries about oil supplies may have caused gasoline prices to go up at the pump earlier this year, but one big investment bank quietly helped their rapid drop in recent weeks, according to some economists, traders, and analysts.
Is silver ETF preparing to clean out Comex or just divert demand?
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-09-30 11:42 Section: Daily Dispatches11:36a ET Saturday, September 30, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, reports that the iShares Silver Trust exchange-traded fund operated by Barclays Global Investors, which claims to hold 104 million ounces of silver, is preparing to buy about 150 million more ounces:
http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1159546321.php
That that would be about 50 million more ounces than were reported held by the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday:
ROB-TV interviews Jay Taylor on mining stocks
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 23:27 Section: Daily Dispatches11:21p ET Thursday, September 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's friend Jay Taylor, editor of J. Taylor's Gold and Technology Stocks letter, was interviewed about mining stocks for an hour Monday on "Market Call Tonight with Michael Hainsworth" on Canada's ROB-TV, and you can watch the show until next Monday at the ROB-TV archive here:
Jim Sinclair interviewed on gold by Bloomberg TV
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 21:42 Section: Daily Dispatches9:22p ET Thursday, September 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Our friend Jim Sinclair, chairman of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration and proprietor of JSMineSet.com, was interviewed for eight minutes Wednesday on Bloomberg Television. Among his major points:
-- Gold isn't a religion but a currency and is primarily the inverse of the U.S. dollar.
-- The dollar is at a critical level and the U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund is likely defending it here.
Regulators urge international action on derivatives
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-09-28 20:58 Section: Daily DispatchesCentral banks and financial houses will work together to fix troublesome markets
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Regulators Urge Joint Action on Derivatives
By Gillian Tett and Anuj Gangahar
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7af25f72-4e54-11db-bcbc-0000779e2340.html
Three of the world's most powerful financial regulators have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint warning that individual nations cannot contain some of the risks posed by the explosive growth of derivatives and must collaborate across borders.
You're invited to GATA's reception during the New Orleans Investment Conference
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 23:52 Section: Daily Dispatches11:47p ET Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee invites its friends to an evening reception in a historic setting during and just a few blocks from the 2006 New Orleans Investment Conference:
Saturday, November 18, 2006
7-9 p.m.
Latrobe's on Royal
403 Royal St.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tickets: $30 per person
Complimentary beer, wine, and hors d'oeuvres
Treasury irked that somebody else may be rigging markets
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 23:30 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilin...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. financial regulators are concerned by an increase in instances of firms trying to profit from controlling a particular Treasury security, a Treasury official told a bond market group on Wednesday.
Enron CFO says banks were part of crooked schemes
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 00:46 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Thom Weidlich
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avUgn8g2tTk8&refer=home
Andrew Fastow, Enron Corp.'s former finance chief and architect of the fraud that led to the energy trader's bankruptcy, said company banks, including Merrill Lynch & Co. and Credit Suisse, were in on his scheme.
"In many instances, the financial transactions in which I engaged related to Enron were done with the knowledge of senior management, some of Enron's banks, and others, and were done primarily to meet Enron's financial reporting and credit-rating targets," Fastow said in a declaration filed in an investor securities-fraud case in Houston today.
Central bank rush to dishoard pushed gold down for two months ...
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 00:37 Section: Daily Dispatches... but desire to sell seems to be fading.
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Gold Sales Fall Well Below Limit
Set in Central Banks' Agreement
By Kevin Morrison
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/42d5707e-4dc4-11db-8704-0000779e2340.html
European central banks have been big sellers of gold over the past six years but this year they appear to have lost their desire to sell the metal even though gold prices have been much higher.
Many Americans suspect gas price decline is political market rigging
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-09-27 00:22 Section: Daily DispatchesAmericans Skeptical of Gas Price Drop
By Brad Foss
Associated Press
Monday, September 25, 2006
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060925/gas_prices.html?.v=1
WASHINGTON -- There is no mystery or manipulation behind the recent fall in gasoline prices, analysts say. Try telling that to many U.S. motorists.
Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.
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