Daily Dispatches

9:53p ET Thursday, October 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As we await tomorrow's announcements that all
those thousands of people laid off by AT&T and
Bank of America have just found jobs in the
U.S. Army's expeditionary force being sent to
Iran (yes, that's an "n," not a "q"), that
Osama bin Laden has been captured while working
the phones at Kerry campaign headquarters in

Gold, and gold stocks, have enjoyed
a rapid run-up since May.
Do they have more room to run?

By Mark Gongloff
CNN/Money Senior Writer
Wednesday, October 6, 2004

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/06/markets/gold/?cnn=yes

NEW YORK -- Confronted with a shaky U.S. dollar,
soaring oil prices, sluggish stocks, and the
ever-present threat of terrorism, investors have

8:20p ET Monday, October 4, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's another great story by Reuters' Canadian
mining correspondent, Nicole Mordant. It's about
objections in Canada to the Chinese government's
bid for the great Canadian mining house, Noranda.

One need no special sympathy for the Chinese to
see that these objections are awfully hypocritical.
Canada has aligned itself slavishly to the U.S.

By Mark Drajem
Bloomberg News
Sunday, October 3, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=aqInugWKloSg&refer=home

WASHINGTON -- China offered no new timetable for
changing a 9-year-old peg of its currency to the
dollar, and warned U.S. policy makers not to press
too hard for a change.

"What we are trying to do is create the conditions for