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Yikes! China urged to quadruple gold reserves
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches"More orderly" because the central banks now
strategically dishoard enough gold to prevent
explosions -- as former Federal Reserve
Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in his memoirs
should have been done in the late 1970s?
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Gold Rally Similar Yet 'More Orderly' Than in 1980
By Allen Sykora
Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
There are a number of similarities in the gold futures now compared
Ted Butler''s best yet: Buffett loses his silver
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060509/3/2kabr.html
BEIJING -- Some Chinese economists are urging Beijing to quadruple
its gold reserves to 2,500 tonnes from the current 600 tonnes
because the country foreign exchange reserves had become the world's
largest, an official industry newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Loonie only 9 cents away from parity with U.S. dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7:29p ET Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Silver market analyst Ted Butler has written his best
column yet -- speculating that Warren Buffett lost his
silver playing derivatives games, analyzing Barrick
Gold's reduction of its hedge book, and raising the
possibility that the Comex is trying to run small
players out of the silver market before the explosion
comes. It's headlined "Buffett Loses His Silver" and
Jay Taylor tells a TV audience what''s really happening with gold
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?
feed=AP&Date=20060509&ID=5708194
TORONTO -- The Canadian dollar charged ahead more than 1 U.S. cent
Tuesday, reaching levels the "loonie" has not seen since January
1978.
The dollar closed up one cent to 90.87 U.S. cents and went as high
Gold market acts ''like someone big is trying to get in''
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:42p ET Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
For the most concise and insightful explanation
of what's really happening with gold and what may
happen, watch ROB-TV's interview today with Jay
Taylor, editor of J. Taylor's Gold and Technology
Stocks newsletter (www.miningstocks.com). Taylor
addresses the years of suppression of the gold
price by central bank dishoarding and the short
The Klondike gold rush may be on again
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-05-09 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBeijing Whispers Push Gold to $700
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2006/05/10/cngold10.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/05/1
0/ixcitytop.html
Gold has surged to $700 an ounce for the first time in 26 years
after Chinese economists suggested the country should quadruple its
Vietnam would restrain gold price with plan for buying through banks
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-05-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:41p ET Saturday, May 6, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The New York Times story about Jim Sinclair
and GATA's Bill Murphy and James Turk, just
dispatched to you, has a great photograph
of Sinclair, our "Mister Gold." You can find
it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/business/yourmoney/07gold.html?
Buffett says Bershire Hathaway has sold its silver
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-05-07 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesHigh Local Gold Price Prompts Rethink
From Vietnam News Agency, Hanoi
Sunday, May 6, 2006
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01BUS060506
HANOI -- In the face of rising domestic gold prices that exceed
world gold prices, the country's banks are planning to sell gold
under a new system, according to the deputy director of the Vietnam
Andy Mukherjee: Asia is getting ready to dump the dollar peg
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-05-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches4:12p ET Sunday, May 7, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Corp. is reported
to have sold its 130 million ounces of silver that
were purchased in 1997. You can find a story about it
at Resource Investor here:
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=19497
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
John Embry: Gold and silver on a tear
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2006-05-06 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy The Associated Press
via the Globe and Mail, Toronto
Friday, May 5, 2006
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060505.wiraneuro
0505/BNStory/Business/home
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran took a step on Friday toward establishing an
oil market denominated in euros, a plan analysts described as highly