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Chinese businesses fear closure if yuan continues rise

Section: Daily Dispatches

Currency Dispute Adds
to US-China Strains
Ahead of Washington Talks

By Joe Mcdonald
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Sunday, May 20, 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070519/china_us_trade_tension.html?.v=12

BEIJING -- Shi Xianbin has watched with alarm as China's currency has risen against the U.S. dollar, driving his small textile company to slash prices to stay competitive abroad.

Vietnam allows banks to trade gold via offshore accounts

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Nhan Dan newspaper (Hanoi)
via VietNamNet Bridge
Sunday, May 20, 2007

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/biz/2007/05/696849/

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has given the green light to three more commercial banks to trade gold via accounts based offshore.

To control inflation, Kuwait drops dollar peg

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ulf Laessing
Reuters
Sunday, May 20, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSL203860120070520

KUWAIT -- Kuwait unshackled its dinar from the tumbling U.S. dollar on Sunday and switched the exchange rate mechanism to a basket of currencies, throwing plans for currency union with other Gulf Arab oil producers into disarray.

Antal Fekete and Doug Noland on the devices of infinite money

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:15p ET Sunday, May 20, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

More and more of American business is just financial manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

We Try Harder -- But What's the Point?

By Michael Kinsley
The New York Times
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/opinion/16kinsley.html?ex=1336968000&e...

China preparing to trade U.S. bonds for equities in a big way

Section: Daily Dispatches

China to Take $3 Billion Gamble on Blackstone

By Martin Arnold, Richard McGregor,
Francesco Guerrera, and Joanna Chung
Financial Times, London
Friday, May 18, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/40240410-056d-11dc-b151-000b5df10621.html

Will U.S. let this $11 billion come home via a buyout?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Saudi Company in Lead to Buy GE Plastics, Source Says

From Reuters
Friday, May 18, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN1816946220070518

BOSTON -- Riyadh-based chemicals company Saudi Basic Industries Corp. is in the lead to buy General Electric Co.'s plastics business, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.

George Cooper: Gold eclipses currencies as inflation hedge

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:40p ET Friday, May 18, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price: The silver bridge

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:25p ET Friday, May 18, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price, president of the Mexican Civic Association for Silver, elaborates on his proposal to put silver back to work as a regular currency in the world's foremost silver-producing nation. His essay is titled "The Silver Bridge" and you can find it at Jim Puplava's Financial Sense Internet site here:

China will let its currency rise faster

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joe McDonald
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Friday, May 18, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_bi_ge/china_economy;_ylt=Ah6I....

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