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YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Oct. 8 (Reuters) -- A German
government source said on Wednesday that Russia may
switch to pricing oil sales in euros rather than dollars,
potentially huge news for financial markets.

However, Russian energy and finance ministry officials
said they were unable to confirm any change was planned.

Russia may switch oil pricing to euros, German source says

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:24a ET Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

CBSMarketWatch Editor Thom Calandra's latest
quot;StockWatchquot; column is an interview with
Ashanti Gold CEO Sam Jonah, and may be
especially interesting for Jonah's remark that
the International Monetary Fund is discouraging
the government of Ghana from investing in new
gold mines.

You can find Calandra's column here:

Central banks declare they''ll do anything to stop free market but nobody gets it

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:29p ET Monday, October 6, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

South African gold market analyst Victor Hugo has produced
as complete an endorsement of GATA's work as we've gotten.
He writes tonight:

quot;After weeks of work to get up to the $380s, just about every
precious metals trader I talk to confirms that the footprints
and timing of price action in recent weeks suggest massive

IMF discourages gold mining investment in Ghana, Ashanti CEO tells Calandra

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stella Dawson
Chief ECB Correspondent
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FRANKFURT, Oct. 6 (Reuters) -- European policymakers
warned on Monday against too rapid foreign exchange
movements, in what analysts called an attempt to slow
the euro's rapid ascent against the dollar.

Gold has ''powerful enemies,'' Financial Post observes in passing

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:53p ET Sunday, October 5, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney
and editor of The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report, has
written a detailed description of how the U.S. government
ran the stops in the gold market on Friday and how it
intervenes in the gold market generally. Turk also has
discovered new discrepancies in the gold accounting by

Lots of good reading tonight -- and a happy ending to Friday''s rout of gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:23p ET Monday, October 6, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This article from Canada's Financial Post is interesting
for acknowledging, in passing, that gold has quot;powerful
enemies.quot; The author doesn't go into details, but he may
have figured that this was the most he could get published
at the moment without risking transfer to the sewer
commission beat and that you could figure it out.

Traders are getting wise to bank intervention against gold, Hugo writes

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:56p ET Monday, October 6, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a great read about a small conference on silver
mining recently held in Idaho. It's a reminder that all
real productivity and wealth involve the extractive
industries, the use of the physical substances of the
planet to make real things.

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''Financial Sense Newshour'' interviews Sprott''s Embry and Central Fund''s Spicer

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:45a ET Saturday, October 4, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, attending the Calgary
Resource Investment Conference, just sent the
dispatch below to subscribers at LeMetropoleCafe.com,
and given the disturbing action in the gold and silver
markets on Friday, he probably would not object to
sharing it with you.

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

How government manipulates the gold price -- and how it worked Friday

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:29a ET Sunday, October 5, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jim Puplava interviews John Embry, president of Sprott
Asset Management in Toronto and manager of Sprott's
precious metals fund, and Stefan Spicer, CEO of Central
Fund of Canada, the gold and silver bullion fund, on
the latest edition of the quot;Financial Sense Newshour.quot;

Embry endorses GATA's finding about the gold market

Data revision sees U.S. employment weak after all

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:52p ET Friday, October 3, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Chris Temple of National Investor writes that
quot;the timing and nature of today's selling
strongly suggests that gold had received a
'push' of sorts.quot; You can read his commentary
at GoldSeek here:

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