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Chinese central banker suggests that yuan may be delinked from dollar sooner

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:29p ET Saturday, April 23, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a Dow Jones Newswires interview,
distributed Friday, with a member of
GATA's Board of Directors, Wistar Holt
of Holt & Shapard Capital Management of
St. Louis, whose Internet site is:

http://www.holtshapard.com/pages/5/index.htm

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Gold investment advisers get to work a big new market

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rob Delaney
Bloomberg News Service
Saturday, April 23, 2005

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=aBtwWU1O6KdE&refer=home

BEIJING -- China may accelerate preparations to loosen the tie
between its currency and the U.S. dollar in response to intensifying
international pressure for the change, central bank Governor Zhou

Dow Jones Newswires interviews GATA board member Wistar Holt

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:15p ET Thursday, April 21, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy gets about three minutes
on camera on the Smartstox On Line TV Talk Show,
videotaped at the Calgary Resource Investment
Conference two weeks ago. You can find Murphy's
presentation here:

http://www.smartstox.com/interviews/gata_calgary.php

It''s easier to be a gold bug when you have a real one, and here''s how

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
InvestmentRarities.com
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

The latest Commitment of Traders Report (COT) in gold has generated
great interest, and for good reason. The numbers are out of line
with any time in the past. You may recall, that a few weeks ago, I
actually labeled the gold COTs as a mistake, so unusual were the
numbers. The Commody Futures Trading Commission assured me that

Smartstox On Line TV Talk Show features GATA Chairman Bill Murphy

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:53p ET Thursday, April 21, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

It's easier to be a gold bug when you have one of
your own, and now, thanks to Gold Newsletter, you
can get one -- a beautiful reproduction of the
gold bug pins worn in the 1896 U.S. presidential
campaign by supporters of the Republican nominee,
William McKinley, advocate of the gold standard.

The reproductions are nearly 7 grams of 22-karat

Ted Butler: No mistake

Section: Daily Dispatches

... It all must have been sold or leased
out already.

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U.S. Treasury's Snow
Says No Consensus on Gold

From Reuters
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh99067_2005-04-19_20-18-35_wat003013_newsml

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow on Tuesday dismissed

U.S. Mint to make coin with higher gold content

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:44p ET Sunday, April 17, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mike Hartman's new essay, "The Stakes Are Very
High," concludes that government intervention in
the markets is now pervasive and obvious. GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy's commentary at
LeMetropoleCafe.com is quoted. You can find
Hartman's essay at Gold-Eagle.com here:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/hartman041705.html

China''s revaluation would hurt dollar and U.S. bonds, poll is told

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Associated Press
via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/0405/19goldcoin.html

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Mint announced on Tuesday it will begin
producing a new 24-karat gold bullion coin early next year, hoping to
capitalize on growing international demand for purer gold coins.

Treasury secretary says he can''t imagine how IMF would ever sell gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jeremy Gaunt
Reuters
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=bondsNews&storyID=8226139

LONDON -- U.S. bonds and the dollar would the main losers from a
revaluation of the Chinese currency being sought by leading
industrial nations, a poll of investors showed on Tuesday.

In a regular monthly investor survey, Merrill Lynch asked fund

Bloomberg''s weekly survey predicts down week for gold but Turk disagrees

Section: Daily Dispatches

G7 Fails to Reach Deal on Debt Relief

By Sumeet Desai
Reuters
Saturday, April 16, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=businessNews&storyID=8201613

WASHINGTON -- The Group of Seven economic powers on Saturday failed
once again to agree on how to free Africa from debt and poverty.

Aid agencies had wanted the rich countries to make good on their

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