Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Thursday, December 22, 2005

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh42059_2005-12-22_15-50-48_n22340160_newsml

TORONTO -- Placer Dome Inc. has agreed to be taken over by Barrick
Gold Corp. after the larger gold producer sweetened its bid to $10.4
billion, the Canadian companies said on Thursday.

By Bud Conrad
CaseyResearch.com
December 19, 2005

In the week ending December 16, gold ran up to $540/oz and then
thudded back to $500. But that's not all that happened. Volume
jumped in a big way on the COMEX and also on the TOCOM (Tokyo
Commodity Exchange). The chart below shows the price of gold in yen,
the big volume and the big price drop. What's going on?

It's another indication that for gold, times have changed: Japanese

By Jon A. Nones
Resource Investor
Friday, December 16, 2005

ST. LOUIS -- Martin Murenbeeld, president of M. Murenbeeld &
Associates Inc, recently called the speculation over central bank
gold buying "not too well grounded." He said it seems more likely
that there will be a rearrangement among gold holding in central
banks as smaller banks sell and more dominant banks buy, rather than

5:25p ET Sunday, December 18, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of
the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and
consultant to GATA, has endorsed what he
calls "Some Wonderful Common-Sense
Thinking About Gold," as provided by
Richard Russell, editor of Dow Theory
Letters. You can find Turk's analysis in
the "Founder's Commentary" box at the