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French treasury penalizes Citigroup for euro bond market manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Pan American Silver to be Added to XAU

Company Press Release
Monday, February 14, 2005

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?
ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2005/0003020305&EDATE=

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Pan American Silver Corp. is pleased
to announce that effective February 21, 2005, it will be added to

The G7 guys went home and now reality is reasserting itself

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, February 10, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh23620_2005-02-10_21-29-42_nat001393_newsml

NEW YORK -- Foreign central banks were net sellers
of U.S. Treasuries for the third week in a row in the
latest week, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday.

Miners start to take note of IMF gold sales talk

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar Rebound Likely Far Off
Even if U.S. Trade Gap Slims

By Nick Olivari
Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=reutersEdge&storyID=7605873

NEW YORK -- Dollar investors looking to U.S. trade data for clues to
the greenback's direction will be disappointed if history repeats
itself.

Goldman joins Merrill Lynch in predicting a decline in dollar holdings

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Firms Oppose IMF Gold Gale,
Citing Chance of Falling Prices

By Eric Onstad
Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005

http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?
type=businessNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=7605233

JOHANNESBURG -- The world's biggest gold firms are banding together
against proposals to sell gold from International Monetary Fund

Bill Bonner: Greenspan''s whopper

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rodrigo Davies
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, February 11, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000085&sid=aT.yk47pSBMo&refer=europe

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Asian central banks will probably
reduce the amount of dollars they hold as foreign-exchange reserves,
joining Merrill Lynch & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc in predicting the

Nick Goodwin can''t figure out why IMF would sell gold in name of helping poor

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:50p ET Friday, February 11, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bill Bonner's new essay, "Greenspan's Whopper,"
appended here, provides much explanation of why
the U.S. government might have wanted to
suppress the gold price in recent years.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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By Bill Bonner
DailyReckoning.com
Friday, February 11, 2005

KitcoCasey interviews Sprott''s John Embry on gold price manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:26p ET Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Financial Times story appended here shows that
government officials in Europe are starting to
realize, if more than a few years late, that banks
have gotten bigger than governments and have
started to intrude on government's market-rigging
prerogatives.

It's one thing for banks to help governments rig
markets in accord with surreptitious national

12 senators urge treasury secretary to oppose IMF gold sales

Section: 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

Goldcorp shareholders vote 2-1 in favor of deal with Wheaton River

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Lesley Wroughton
Reuters
Thursday, February 10, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=7597536

WASHINGTON -- A dozen U.S. lawmakers have told U.S. Treasury
Secretary John Snow to oppose proposals for the sale of some of the
International Monetary Fund's gold stockpile to pay for debt relief

Foreign-controlled companies barred from Russia''s resource deals this year

Section: Daily Dispatches

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

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