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Dimitri Speck: Gold's strange behavior during financial crisis

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:13p ET Monday, November 26, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With a new paper, "Gold's Strange Behavior During Financial Crisis," market reseacher Dimitri Speck, editor of Seasonal-Charts.com, expands on his work documenting central bank intervention against gold. It can be found at Gold-Eagle here:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/speck112507.html

'Super SIV' fund seen as device for ingratiating banks with the government

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bank of America Takes Lead
in Backing 'Super SIV' Fund

By David Mildenberg and Christopher Condon
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 26, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afLswJw550m8&refer=home

Dollar displaces yen, Swiss franc as favorite for carry-trade funding

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Bo Nielsen
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 26, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aWMXWN6PFHa4

NEW YORK -- Using the dollar to pay for purchases of currencies with higher yields is proving to be the most profitable trade in the foreign-exchange market.

Antal Fekete: Our diseased monetary bloodstream

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:54p ET Sunday, November 25, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Dollar's fall is now a bigger political issue than an economic one

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bet Your Bottom Dollar Tensions Will Follow

By Liam Halligan
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, November 25, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/25/ccliam...

Trichet has plenty of helicopters too

Section: Daily Dispatches

ECB Set to Pump More Cash into Money Markets

By Ralph Atkins, Ivar Simensen, and David Oakley
Financial Times, London
Friday, November 23, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6a8adc9a-99b7-11dc-ad70-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

Credit 'heart attack' strikes China and Korea

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, November 22, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/21/bcnasi...

The global credit crisis has hit Asia with a vengeance for the first time, triggering a massive flight to safety as investors across the region pull out of risky assets.

European banks suspend trading in mortgage bonds

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Esteban Duarte and Steve Rothwell
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aTCTOhu0Jxk8

European banks agreed to suspend trading in the $2.8 trillion market for mortgage debt known as covered bonds to halt a slump that has closed the region's main source of financing for home lenders.

Securities market rigging is taken for granted

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:02p ET Thursday, November 22, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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