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Chancellor''s losses hit $6.6 billion as gold touches record high
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-05-13 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, May 13, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2006/05/13/cncopp113.xml&sSheet=/money/2006/05/13/ixcityto
p.html
Thieves used to steal lead from church roofs. Now they raid railway
lines for copper.
The heavily-protected stretch of high-speed (TGV) track from Rheims
Howe Street interviews James Turk; GoldSeek interviews Bill Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-05-13 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesLabour's sale of half the Bank of England's reserves
to invest in euro and yen was 'impatient' and 'badly timed'
By Jason Niss
The Independent, London
Sunday, May 14, 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article422920.ece
Gold hit record highs on Friday, raising the cost of Gordon Brown's
decision to sell half of the UK's reserves to more than $6.5 billion
Royal Mint warns against melting pennies as dentists profit from scrap fillings
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-05-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesGold Bugs
By Peter McKay
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Investing pros have begun pondering the possibility that gold will
hit a record over $800 a troy ounce soon. This means that the gold
bugs -- that patchwork of sometimes offbeat investors who love the
shiny stuff -- are happier, and louder, than ever.
Gold futures for May delivery have risen this week 3.2%, or $21.50,
Bolivia expected to raise taxes on mining but not nationalize
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-05-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesCopper Fever Sparks Meltdown at the Mint
By Richard Adams and Simon Bowers
The Guardian, Manchester, England
Friday, May 12, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1773282,00.html
The old saying about looking after the pennies and the pounds will
look after themselves took a new twist yesterday as the Royal Mint
Despite higher gold prices, miners can''t boost production for years
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-05-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Helen Popper
Reuters
Friday, May 12, 2006
http://yahoo.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?
storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060512:MTFH67891_2006-05-12_20-50-
05_N12333316&symbol=EEL.V&rpc=44
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivia's investment-hungry mining industry is
not in line for a nationalization like that seen in the energy
Banks face vast losses in copper mayhem
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-05-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesGold Prices Hit New 26-Year Highs,
Allowing Mining Companies to Post Surging Revenue
By Heidi Vogt
Associated Press
Friday, May 12, 2006
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060512/golden_times.html?.v=7
DAKAR, Senegal -- With oil soaring to new highs and the U.S. dollar
back down, investors are looking to the usual haven: gold.
Scrap thieves in France ransack railroad lines for copper
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2006-05-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, May 13, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2006/05/13/cncopp13.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/05/1
3/ixcitytop.html
The spike in copper prices over recent weeks has left a group of
banks and operators on the London Metal Exchange (LME) nursing vast
Russia''s president wants oil, gas traded in rubles on a domestic exchange
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-05-11 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:14p ET Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Investor's Business Daily, perhaps the most
technical U.S. market publication, today
interviewed silver market analyst Ted Butler,
which must have felt to him like an escape
from the wilderness.
Just a few days ago The New York Times
interviewed gold bug hero Jim Sinclair and
GATA's Bill Murphy and James Turk.
Are we getting respectable or just too
After seven years, Wall Street Journal notices GATA
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-05-11 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom RIA Novosti
Wednesday, May 5, 2006
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060510/47932818.html
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin called Wednesday for work
on making the national currency convertible to be completed, oil and
gas to be traded in rubles on a domestic exchange, and an innovation-
based economy.
In his annual state of the nation address before both houses of
China plans to build strategic reserves of key minerals, along with oil
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-05-10 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:34p ET Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Resource Investor's James West has a fascinating
story about what may become the next Klondike
gold rush -- the work of Klondike Star Mineral
Corp., co-host and sponsor of GATA's Gold Rush
21 conference last August in Dawson City, Yukon
Territory, the conference that let the world
know exactly how the gold price was being
suppressed and that sent the gold price off to
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