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Marc Faber, who told investors to bail out of U.S. stocks a week
before the 1987 Black Monday crash and began recommending
commodities at the end of 2001, said gold may rise 10-fold in the

Read more about Geneva conference to examine central bank suppression of gold

Ted Butler: A long time coming

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-04-25 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

1:43a ET Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The suppression of the gold price by central banks
will be among the topics at the Academy & Finance
conference on gold investing at the Forum Geneva
in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, May 18.

Speakers will include GATA consultant Frank Veneroso
of Veneroso Associates; financial commentators Doug
Casey and Paul van Eeden; Tocqueville gold fund

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Silver ETF launch reported imminent but MorganChase is custodian

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-04-25 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:47p ET Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler takes a look at the
recent shakeout in silver and senses that it's
probably over and that the dealers will be reluctant
to short the next rally. His essay is titled "A Long
Time Coming" and you can find it at GoldSeek's
companion site, SilverSeek, here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1145998584.php

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If something is missing from your house, it may have been monetized

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-04-25 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:11p ET Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor and Reuters are reporting tonight that
final approval and launch of the Barclays silver exchange-
traded fund are imminent. The Reuters story is appended.

Resource Investor says that to back the fund, Barclays
has deposited 1.5 million ounces of silver with none
other than J.P. MorganChase Bank in London -- which

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Qatar''s central bank diversifying out of dollars and into euros

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2006-04-24 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:53a ET Sunday, April 23, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, advises
that gold has broken out to all-time highs against the
Australian dollar, South African rand, Indian rupee, and
Chinese yuan. Meanwhile, Turk writes, the U.S. dollar is
looking ready to head lower, which likely would provide

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India''s gold exchange-traded funds may hold only futures contracts, not metal

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2006-04-24 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

From AMEInfo, Dubai
Monday, April 24, 2006

http://www.ameinfo.com/83944.html

The Qatar Central Bank is exchanging dollars for euros on global
capital markets and could raise the percentage of its foreign
exchange reserves held in euros to 40 percent, a Qatar Central Bank
official told Dow Jones Newswires.

The news comes as many Gulf Cooperation Council countries are