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quot;Midasquot; commentary for October 15, 2000

By Bill Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
October 15, 2000

Market activity in the shares of Telstra, the
Australian telecom giant 50.1 percent owned by the
Australian government, accounted for nearly a third of

11:15p EDT Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Members of GATA and www.LeMetropoleCafe.com in Germany
report that the television network that broadcasts
financial news there, NTV, interviewed in prime time
tonight a financial analyst who seems to have laid
out GATA's case for gold and explained the manipulation
of the gold market.

Below are the accounts we received. Thanks so much to

By Barry Riley
The Financial Times
www.ft.com
October 6, 2000

You may think the stock market is stuck in a rut, but
spare a thought for the gold bullion traders who are in
an even worse fix.

They have watched, from the sidelines, a panic develop
over the euro and an alarming spike form in the oil
price. So what has happened in that historical nest of
speculation over currencies and inflation, the gold

DENVER, Oct. 4 (Reuters) -- Is gold a currency, a
monetary standard, a mere commodity, or all three?

That was the question as international mining companies
and investors attending the annual Denver gold show
plugged gold's historic money role as a key to
eventually restoring the embattled industry's
prospects.

But the sad irony is that the once-venerated yellow
metal is behaving too much like a currency -- one that