Daily Dispatches

12:20a ET Thursday, February 10, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The new KitcoCasey Internet site has a brilliant
interview with Sprott Asset Management Chief
Investment Strategist John Embry, co-author
with Andrew Hepburn of "Not Free, Not Fair:
the Long-Term Manipulation of the Gold Price."
The interview's subject is just that. It was
conducted by Dave Forest and you can find it

By The Associated Press
Thursday February 10, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050210/gold_fight_7.html

TORONTO -- Shareholders in Goldcorp Inc. spurned an aggressive Nevada-
based gold producer Thursday as they voted in favor of a $1.9 billion
buyout of Wheaton River Minerals of Vancouver.

The Wheaton River deal was approved by about 65 percent at a special

8:30p ET Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story appended here about IMF gold
sales may be most interesting for the observations
of the Canadian gold market analyst Martin
Murenbeeld, who speculates that any gold sold
will be sold to central banks, particularly those
with large surpluses of U.S. dollars. Thus the
gold would remain in official hands and never

By John M. Berry
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000039&refer=columnist_berry&sid=a9Y0rAfhiA4g

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking in London last
week, put the best face he could on the outlook for the burgeoning
U.S. current account deficit.

Currency markets, perhaps misled by the seemingly hopeful tone of