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Dollar gains as Fed governor says U.S. is attracting ''tremendous'' investment

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:06p ET Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ned W. Schmidt, editor of the Value View Gold Report,
examines the decline in purchases of U.S. government
debt by foreign central banks in a new essay,
"Moneyization, Part 7," at FinancialSense.com here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/schmidt/2005/0207.html

Even if IMF sold gold, it probably would remain in government hands

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rodrigo Davies
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, February 8, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000100&sid=aA6F1ffAjpUQ&refer=germany

The dollar climbed to an almost two-month high against the yen after
Federal Reserve Governor Susan Bies said the United States is
attracting a "tremendous amount" of investment.

Gold market wary of big IMF sales but demand remains strong

Section: Daily Dispatches

IMF Looks at Gold Sale Options for Debt Relief

By Andrew Balls, Chris Giles,
and Scheherazade Daneshkhu
Financial Times, London
Sunday, February 6, 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8c757556-787a-11d9-9961-00000e2511c8.html

The International Monetary Fund is preparing a report on the
potential sale of a portion of its gold reserves in a move that would

James Turk: More bounce in the dollar but it changes little

Section: Daily Dispatches

Citigroup Puts Four Bond Dealers on Leave
Pending Investigation of Suspicious Trade

By The Associated Press
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050205/britain_citigroup_1.html

LONDON -- Citigroup Inc. has said it placed four dealers
on paid leave pending an investigation of a suspicious
bond trade.

Sunday''s Financial Times reports on the perpetual IMF gold sales frenzy

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:30p ET Sunday, February 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and founder of GoldMoney, has
posted new commentary. While it is titled "More Bounce
in the Dollar," it concludes that "nothing has changed
to reverse the dollar's long-term bear market." You can
find Turk's analysis in the "Founder's Commentary"

G7 send IMF back to the drawing board on using gold for debt relief

Section: Daily Dispatches

Russia Ends De-Facto Dollar Peg
and Moves to Align Rouble with Euro

By Steve Johnson
Financial Times
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb1cd3e0-771b-11d9-b897-00000e2511c8.html

LONDON -- Russia said yesterday it had abandoned efforts
to tie the rouble's movement closely to the dollar and

China is determined to let yuan float ... someday

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Sumeet Desai and Stella Dawson
Reuters
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7547048

LONDON -- The Group of Seven wealthy nations pledged to increase
Third World debt relief on Saturday but a deal struck after major
disagreements fell short of proposals floated by British finance

Diverting demand for real metal, ETFs may indicate that supplies are low

Section: Daily Dispatches

China: No timetable for yuan float;
But central banker says it's determined to make the move

CBSMarketWatch.com
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BBFF9EF70%2D26D8%
2D4283%2DAEF6%2D0EC05D1F2A67%7D&siteid=mktw

LONDON -- China has no timetable for allowing the yuan to trade more

No debt relief, no yuan float, empty promises on U.S. deficits -- what success!

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Howard Ruff
The Ruff Times
February 2005
http://www.rufftimes.com

I recently got a phone call from a subscriber, David Homes. He is a
very sophisticated and significant gold investor. He has been
viewing with alarm the development of exchange-traded funds, or
ETFs. They will be touted more and more but he has some serious
reservations. I asked him to write an article. Read it carefully,

Greenspan''s 1981 essay confirms government''s interest in controlling gold price

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Steve Goldstein and Aude Lagorce
CBSMarketWatch.com
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5524BA20-ED8A-4BAE-
B898-261E216DF8AF%7D&siteid=mkwt

LONDON -- The Group of Seven finance ministers and top central
bankers of the world's leading industrialized countries on Saturday

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