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Ted Butler: China confirms the obvious about the shortage of raw materials

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Tim Ahmann
Reuters
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6366960

WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund on
Wednesday called on China to drop the yuan currency's
tight peg to the dollar to help keep domestic inflation
under control and bring more balance to the global

GATA extends condolences to Jim Sinclair and his family

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
September 29, 2004

www.InvestmentRarities.com

Once again the COTs correctly depicted the market
structure and foretold the price direction in silver.
Following the tech fund long liquidation and sharp
selloff, the silver market rallied smartly once the
tech funds were cleaned out, as suggested in last
week's article, "The Setup?"

While it remains to be seen if this move turns into

Chinese premier receives Rubin and talks about exchange rate ''reform''

Section: Daily Dispatches

NY crude futures hit $50 in evening trading

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Monday, September 27, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/pulseone.asp?guid=%
7B0404CF68%2D8E15%2D4138%2DB032%2D4D13DBA3304E%7D&siteid=mktw

SAN FRANCISCO -- Crude futures hit $50 a barrel
in evening trading Monday, continuing higher after

Argentina''s central bank moves more reserves into gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

Premier says China to make yuan more flexible

Reuters
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh92754_2004-09-28_11-51-09_pek174607_newsml

BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged on
Tuesday to push ahead with reform of the yuan
currency and make the exchange rate mechanism

China is contemplating getting out of the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Argentina's Central Bank Increases Gold Reserves

Reuters
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6351310

LONDON -- Argentina's central bank bought more
gold in July and August, taking its gold reserves up
to 1.77 million troy ounces by the end of August, or

He''s that bullish: McEwen would bank all Goldcorp''s production if he could

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:40p ET Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

China's English-language daily newspaper, China
Daily, today published a major opinion essay by
the head of the economics department of China
Foreign Affairs University. He argued that China
stands to suffer huge losses if it continues to
hold most of its foreign exchange reserves in
U.S. dollars, and he advocated converting those

20 percent devaluation of U.S. dollar is reported proposed for G7 meeting

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Nicole Mordant
Reuters
Sunday, September 26, 2004

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh64626_2004-09-27_00-11-59_n26656630_newsml

DENVER -- Rattled by a spate of high-profile mining
disruptions on several continents this month, gold
stock investors are looking to company bosses to

Internet link to Dow Jones Newswires story on dollar devaluation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:21a ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While an in-the-clear Internet link is not available
for the Dow Jones Newswires story below, GATA has
confirmed its genuineness, so the question becomes
the reliability of the unidentified sources of the
source publication, the British paper The Business.

The consequences of the possible international
financial policy cited by those sources -- a

Newsweek story on currency exchange rates acknowledges manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:35a ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to a poster at Centennial Precious
Metals' USAGold.com bulletin board, here's
an in-the-clear link to the Ameritrade
brokerage service's reproduction of the Dow
Jones Newswires story about speculation on
a 20-percent devaluation of the U.S. dollar:

http://www.amtddj.inlumen.com/bin/djstory?StoryId=Cqvy:WaebqLqWmde2mtG

Original story about 20% dollar devaluation from The Business

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:50a ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Newsweek story appended here, published
over the weekend, reiterates the likelihood that
currency exchange rates will get a lot of
discussion when the central bankers meet
this week. It also acknowledges ongoing central
bank manipulation of exchange rates and thus,
implicitly, gold: "It's not always clear where

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