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MineWeb: Gold and copper hedges slash into Newcrest's profits
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2006-08-28 09:02 Section: Daily Dispatches8:52p ET Monday, August 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
MineWeb reports that the most recent financial results of the big Australian mining company, Newcrest, are poor, despite the boom in the metals, because of hedging. MineWeb says:
"The prime reason for the company’s relatively poor ongoing performance in a time of much higher gold and copper prices has been the impact of its forward sales contracts. Newcrest received only Aus$564 an ounce for its gold during the year, compared with the Aus$708 average spot price over the same period. Similarly, its less significant copper sales were achieved at Aus$2.22/lb as against a $3.69/lb average on the open market."
James Turk: Heed the wake-up call
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2006-08-28 08:40 Section: Daily Dispatches8:30p ET Monday, August 28, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The failure of the Refco brokerage house and the nickel contract of the London Metals Exchange are reminders of the huge difference between owning metal and owning only someone's promise to deliver metal, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk writes. You can find his new commentary, "Wake-Up Call," in the "Founder's Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney home page here:
Ted Butler: China is trying to talk silver down
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-08-27 19:14 Section: Daily Dispatches7p ET Sunday, August 27, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Silver market analyst Ted Butler is interviewed by Jim Cook of Investment Rarities at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, and says China is trying to talk the price of silver down. He says a lot of other interesting things too, and you can find them in "Interview With Ted Butler" here:
Japan is back in the free-credit, dollar-bailout business
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-08-27 17:00 Section: Daily DispatchesYen Slumps Most in Nine Months as Interest-Rate Trades Resume
By Chris Young
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, August 28, 2006
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akqB.r6N6VPE&refer=home
SYDNEY, Australia -- The yen is heading for its worst month against the dollar since November as investors take advantage of Japan's low interest rates to finance trades in higher-yielding assets.
Greg Peel: Gold sales continue to confuse
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-08-25 01:05 Section: Daily Dispatches12:56a ET Friday, August 25, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In his latest commentary, Greg Peel of FN Arena News in Australia again takes note of the mystery and accounting anomalies surrounding central bank gold sales, citing GATA and Dennis Gartman, editor of the Gartman Letter, who sometimes sees the trees but never the forest. Peel's commentary is titled "Gold Sales Continue to Confuse" and you can find it here:
Exchanges see gold's monetary role growing
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-08-24 16:22 Section: Daily DispatchesBut is 24-hour electronic trading meant mainly to bury gold in more paper contracts?
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Nymex Offers to Pay Gold Traders
$275 Million to Support Move Online
By Matthew Leising and Ann Saphir
Bloomberg News Service
Thursday, August 24, 2006
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZJK2DBWaUp4
Nymex Holdings Inc., owner of the world's largest gold futures market, plans to pay members who trade metals about $275 million in stock to win their approval of around-the-clock electronic trading, three people with knowledge of the proposal said.
NovaGold boosts mineral estimates: gold by 14%, copper 25%, silver 55%
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-08-24 15:43 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom the Associated Press
Thursday, August 24, 2006
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060824/apfn_novagold_resources.html?.v=1
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- NovaGold Resources Inc., the target of a hostile takeover bid from Barrick Gold Corp., increased its mineral resource estimates Thursday based on results from a drilling program at its Donlin Creek and Galore Creek projects.
The Vancouver miner said its gold measured and indicated resources had been raised by 14 percent to 20.6 million ounces, while copper was up 25 percent to 8.5 billion pounds and silver rose 55 percent to 117.1 million ounces.
Australia's national newspaper cites GATA and BIS' confession to suppressing gold
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-08-23 21:00 Section: Daily DispatchesGolden Opportunity for Conspiracy: The New Gold Rush
Gold prices don't always conform to expectations, leaving room for some wild theories, Robin Bromby reports
By Robin Bromby
The Australian, Sydney
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
As if a seemingly insoluble situation in Lebanon, Iran on the verge of nuclear capability, oil at more than $US70 a barrel, and inflation barking at our doors wouldn't be enough to keep propelling the gold price.
Chinese banks struggle to hedge bloated dollar holdings
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-08-23 12:16 Section: Daily DispatchesChinese Banks Facing Losses on Dollar Assets as Yuan Rises
From Xinhua News Agency
via People's Daily Online, Beijing
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
http://english.people.com.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_296115.html
Major Chinese banks, with an estimated $80 billion in foreign currency assets, will face losses if the yuan keeps rising in value, bank executives said Wednesday.
Banks holding U.S. dollars would "definitely suffer losses as the renminbi, or the yuan, continues to appreciate," Pang Xiusheng, the China Construction Bank's chief finance officer, told Xinhua.
Barrick stung by GATA's criticism of hedge book amid bid for NovaGold
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-08-22 09:08 Section: Daily Dispatches8:55a ET Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Barrick Gold has accused GATA of trying to mislead the investment world about the mining company's attempt to acquire NovaGold Resources Inc.
Barrick's charge comes in an interview given to MineWeb's Dorothy Kosich by the company's senior vice president for corporate communications, Vince Borg, who seems to be claiming that the company's hedge book really isn't so bad.
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