Daily Dispatches

From RIA Novosti News Agency
Monday, May 22, 2006

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060522/48434383.html

MOSCOW -- The Russian Trading System, Russia's premier stock market,
announced Monday that it would start trading in gold, oil, and oil
products on June 8.

The announcement comes in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's
state of the nation address May 10, when he said Russia, as a

10:35a ET Sunday, May 21, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, is not
discouraged by last week's decline in the precious metals.
Having gotten out his charts, Turk writes:

"The bull market in the precious metals has not ended.
Gold simply took a breather when it touched resistance at

From Reuters
Monday, May 22, 2006

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060522/3/2kvnn.html

BEIJING -- China should buy more gold with its foreign exchange
reserves, an official newspaper said in a commentary on Monday.

The China Securities Journal said gold accounted for only 1.3
percent of China's foreign currency reserves, which hit a world

In Gold We Trust

By David Ranson and Penny Russell
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Widespread fear of another global energy crisis is rife, especially
in light of the confrontation with Iran. But the second of Murphy's
Laws cautions that what actually goes wrong is seldom what we
anticipate. While the markets are clearly indicating something
ominous, the current situation is mischaracterized as an energy