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Long-awaited approval for ETF spurs silver to 22-year high

Section: Daily Dispatches

Another step forward for silver ETF;
SEC approves rule change;
silver rallies on speculation

By John Spence
CBSMarketWatch
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B800FF9D4%
2D65A5%2D492C%2D96D7%2D24DB3E975B71%7D&siteid=mkwt&dist=

BOSTON -- A controversial exchange-traded fund tied to silver prices

Credit derivatives rocked by loss at GM finance arm

Section: Daily Dispatches

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

http://www.investmentrarities.com/03-14-06.html

Cook: At this moment the exchange-traded fund or ETF in silver has
not been approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Do
you think it will be approved soon?

Butler: I don't think anyone knows when, or if, the ETF will be
approved. But the more I think about it, this silver ETF issue is

Chancellor under fire for gold sale as price nears $600

Section: Daily Dispatches

Get this: "A 'significant' proportion of total trades do not even
match up." This isn't money and it isn't even credit. It's just
wishful thinking pretending to be real.

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, March 18, 2006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2006/03/18/cngm18.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/03/18/

Mogambo Guru is ''Back with a Vengeance''

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gabriel Rozenberg
The Times, London
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-2095653,00.html

Forecasts that gold prices are set to smash through the $600-an-
ounce barrier saw Gordon Brown come under renewed pressure last
night over his controversial decision to sell the majority of

Committee for Monetary Research and Education dinner is May 11 in NYC

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:06p ET Monday, March 20, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Richard Daughty, the Mogambo Guru, the self-proclaimed
"angriest guy in economics," has another favorable
reference to GATA is his commentary tonight, "Back With
a Vengeance," which you can find at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/DailyReckoning/1142879793.php

India may lift foreign exchange restrictions to make currency fully convertible

Section: Daily Dispatches

11p ET Thursday, March 16, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friend Dimitri Speck, whose statiscal research
has done much to prove the gold price suppression
scheme, has written a defense of his work, "A Reply
to the Phantom Cartel," and it has been posted at
Financial Sense here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/2006/0315.html

China to open theme park dedicated to gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

India May Make Currency Fully Convertible
By Lifting Foreign Exchange Restrictions

By Ramola Talwar Badam
Associated Press
Sunday March 19, 2006

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060319/india_free_currency.html?.v=3

BOMBAY, India -- India is looking into making its currency fully
convertible and lifting all restrictions on foreign exchange

Prominent trader predicts market intervention by Plunge Protection Team

Section: Daily Dispatches

Maybe New York could open one dedicated
to derivatives and market rigging. ...

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From Agence France-Presse
Sunday, March 19, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060319/ts_afp/afpentertainmentchinameta
lsgold_060319061656

BEIJING -- Gold-hungry China plans to open what it has billed the
world's first theme park dedicated entirely to the precious metal,

Jim Cook of Investment Rarities interviews Ted Butler on silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

The Big Game for This Bull Cycle Is Over

By Kevin Haggerty
TradingMarkets.com
Friday, March 17, 2006

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/Daytrading/commentary/khview/-
50168.cfm

http://biz.yahoo.com/tm/060317/14064.html

Erratic is as erratic was yesterday with the SPX +0.2% to 1305.33

James Turk: Another step closer to the breakout

Section: Daily Dispatches

Metal Is So Precious
That Scrap Thieves
Now Tap Beer Kegs

Brewmaster Combs Junkyards
For Company Property;
Stealing 3 Tons of Steel

By Joel Millman
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Brewmaster Neil Witte has an unusual job to do
these days: combing through scrap metal.

"There's one!" he shouted on a recent afternoon, as he tugged a
shiny, 30-pound cylinder from the mountain of stainless steel at a

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