Daily Dispatches

Fear index to boost gold, say many
Bullion backers will present forecasts next month

By Thom Calandra, Editor
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Monday, Oct. 21, 2002

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Bullion believers are more convinced

8p Sunday, October 20, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Below is the program for the fall dinner conference of
the Committee for Monetary Research and Education,
to be held on the evening of Wednesday, November
20, at the Union Club in New York.

The conference will emphasize discussion of a topic
important to GATA -- the credit vulnerabilities of
banks, corporations, and countries -- and your

By John Dizard
Financial Times
www.ft.com
October 11, 2002

In what is often called the quot;Talibanquot; or quot;fundamentalistquot;
wing of the goldbug movement, Barrick Gold is reviled
as the Great Satan, intent on driving down the gold
price through its derivatives activities, in league with
either the Federal Reserve, or the Illuminati, or both.

Barrick's position, with which I have agreed over the

Moody's cuts J.P. Morgan senior debt rating

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (Reuters) -- Moody's Investors Service
today cut J.P. Morgan Chase amp; Co.'s long-term debt
ratings, affecting about $42 billion of debt, reflecting
concern about the No. 2 U.S. banking company's
medium- and long-term business outlook.

Moody's cut J.P. Morgan's senior unsecured debt
one notch to quot;A1,quot; its fifth highest grade, from quot;Aa3,quot;