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Peter Brimelow: Gold superbulls remain cautious

Section: Daily Dispatches

Report: China Banks to Get Dollar Dealings

By The Associated Press
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.forbes.com/business/healthcare/feeds/ap/2004/11/29/ap167775
8.html

Regulators may let China's four biggest state banks
become market makers in U.S. dollar trading, paving
the way for less currency intervention by the central

Everyone seems to expect the dollar to rally now, not to keep falling

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B2191C73B%2D688D%
2D4446%2DB25D%2D5B062EB1E884%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

NEW YORK -- Thanksgiving rally? Gold got as high as
$455 during the U.S. holiday. But veteran gold bugs
remain remarkably restrained.

Central banks remain the crucial factors in the currency markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar Halts Slide on Speculation
That Decline May Have Gone Too Far

By Rodrigo Davies and Mark Tannenbaum
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000101&sid=aFPzElvSBHt8&refer=japan

NEW YORK -- The dollar's decline against the euro
stalled on speculation its move had gone too far

Weight of speculation seen working more against gold than the dollar

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Investors Unite Around Dollar's Decline

By Agnes T. Crane
Dow Jones Newswires
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041129/15/3owou.html

NEW YORK -- A weakening dollar isn't exactly news
for financial markets, but the acceleration of its
decline in recent weeks and the headlines it has
generated have prompted investors ranging from foreign

Still more efforts to talk the dollar back up

Section: Daily Dispatches

All That Glitters is Gold, Not the Dollar

By Steven Vames and Gavin Maguire
Dow Jones Newswires
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041129/15/3owoq.html

NEW YORK -- In recent months, it's been the golden
rule, so to speak: The dollar keeps hitting historic lows
and gold keeps hitting historic highs.

It's a relationship that typifies the gold market in times

Still more efforts to talk the dollar back up

Section: Daily Dispatches

Japan May Intervene Soon
To Prop Up Dollar: Report

From Reuters
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=6945722

NEW YORK -- Japanese monetary authorities may
be spurred to intervene to prop up the dollar once the
U.S. currency falls below 102 yen, according to a

Teasury Secretary Snow likely won''t be kept on long, Washington Post suggests

Section: Daily Dispatches

Japan May Intervene Soon
To Prop Up Dollar: Report

From Reuters
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=6945722

NEW YORK -- Japanese monetary authorities may be
spurred to intervene to prop up the dollar once
the U.S. currency falls below 102 yen, according
to a report from New York-based consultants Medley

Richard Daughty: The gold bug in all of us

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bush to Change Economic Team;
Candidates Likely To Be From
Outside The Administration

By Mike Allen
Washington Post
Monday, November 29, 2004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18599-2004Nov28.html

President Bush plans to overhaul his economic team
for the second time in two years and wants to tap

China urged to develop gold market for asset protection, not speculation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Mogambo Guru
(a.k.a. Richard Daughty)
DailyReckoning.com
Monday, November 29, 2004

Alert reader Jim E. sent me a New Yorker article by a
guy named James Surowiecki who has written an
interesting article: "Why Gold?" Jim thought the guy
was the "dumbest SOB that ever lived" and of course
I was excited to hear about a guy who was a bigger
and dumber SOB than me!

Lawsuits seeking billions from U.S. companies in South Africa dismissed

Section: Daily Dispatches

Giving Gold a Foreign Touch

By Yu Qiao
China Daily, Beijing
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/30/content_395899.htm

An executive of Shanghai Gold Exchange yesterday
said that China's sole national gold bourse has made
submissions to the central bank to attract foreign

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