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On to the Yukon, Gold Rush 21, and the Agnico-Eagle gold bar auction
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2005-08-04 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:43a ET Thursday, August 4, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldMoney's James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold
& Money Report and consultant to GATA, today posted
a new commentary, "Dollar Drops to a Six-Week Low."
You can find it in the "Founder's Commentary" box
at the GoldMoney home page here:
MiningMX adds digest of South African radio programs on business
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2005-08-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:44p ET Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Julian D.W. Phillips, editor of Gold -- Authentic
Money, has picked up on GATA consultant John
Brimelow's observation that the signatories of the
Central Bank Gold Agreement have nearly reached the
limits of the gold they committed themselves to
sell. Phillips also asks whether the gold sales
undertaken by the parties to the agreement and by
Bids are strengthening for Gold Rush 21''s commemorative gold bars
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2005-08-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:01a ET Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Miningmx Internet site has started an interesting
feature -- a digest of South African radio programs on
business subjects, those subjects often involving,
of course, the mining industry. Unfortunately it seems
that there's going to be a lot of difficult news out of
the mining industry in South Africa in the days ahead,
Strike could interrupt South African gold production as early as Sunday
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
via International Herald Tribune, Paris
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/01/business/bux.php
NEW YORK -- The dollar trimmed its losses on Monday after stronger-
than-expected data on U.S. manufacturing and options-related trading
partially offset central bank demand for euros in a thin market.
Yuan shift fuels talk of loosening Arab currency links to dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Eric Onstad
Reuters
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?
type=businessNews&storyID=2005-08-
02T095511Z_01_ALL226685_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-MINERALS-SAFRICA-GOLD-
20050802.XML
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa geared up for more labour unrest on
Tuesday as restive gold miners said the first country-wide strike in
Chinese oil company drops bid for Unocal
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dominic Evens
Reuters
via San Diego Union
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050802-0023-economy-
gulf-currency.html
RIYADH -- China's revaluation of the yuan is fuelling debate in Gulf
Arab states about the wisdom of fixing their currencies to a weak
U.S. dollar while trading links with Asia and Europe continue to
Ted Butler: The gold and silver secret
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Francesco Guerrera
and Joe Levy
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://us.ft.com/ftsuperpage/superpage.php?
news_id=fto080220051442155071&referrer_id=yahoofinance
HONG KONG -- CNOOC on Tuesday dropped its $18.5 billion for Unocal,
ending the most ambitious takeover attempt by a Chinese company and
leaving Chevron to buy the US energy group for about $17.6bn in cash
Good bids arriving for auction of 1-ounce gold bars at Gold Rush 21
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ted Butler
Investment Rarities
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://www.investmentrarities.com/08-02-05.html
As recent commentaries have suggested, the favorable commitment of
traders market structure has resulted in price rallies in gold and
silver. While there has been deterioration in the market structure
since the Tuesday cutoff in the COT report, with tech fund buying
Julian Phillips: Are central banks running out of gold to rig market with?
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2005-08-02 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:20p ET Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Good bids are being received for the 10 1-ounce
Johnson-Matthey gold bars being donated to GATA
by Agnico-Eagle Mines for auction at our Gold
Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon, from
August 7-9.
Thanks to Samex Mining, co-host of Gold Rush 21
along with Klondike Star Mineral Corp., the minimum
bid stands at $750, which Samex has offered for
Bid for a valuable souvenir of Gold Rush 21
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-08-01 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7:07p ET Sunday, July 31, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Bloomberg News Service's weekly survey of traders'
views on the gold price, appended here, quotes a
GATA supporter, Paul Yusem of Lombard, Ill., and
a participant in GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference,
Gregory Orrell of Orrell Capital Management in
Livermore, Calif.
The survey also takes note of central bank gold
dishoarding, which, while the primary determinant