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Someone else notices, without understanding, gold''s badly trailing oil
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-04-04 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Monday, April 4, 2005
http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?
type=businessNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8074827
FRANKFURT -- The International Monetary Fund should not sell or
revalue its gold reserves to fund debt relief for poor countries,
Germany's Bundesbank said on Monday.
A Bundesbank spokesman confirmed that a document quoted in the
British Treasury urges IMF to sell gold for debt relief, asset diversification
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-04-04 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesIs Gold the Next Asset Class to Boom?
By James McInerney, News Editor
AME Info, Dubai
Monday, April 4, 2005
http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/57055.html
In the 1970s oil prices soared but were still below the heights
reached today. But gold prices peaked in 1979 at more than twice
their current levels. So is buying gold the next big investment
Robert Bell: The Invisible Hand (of the U.S. Government) in Financial Markets
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-04-04 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Monday, April 4, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8080238
LONDON -- The International Monetary Fund should sell gold to finance
deeper debt relief and diversify its portfolio, the UK Treasury said
on Monday.
"The IMF themselves have concluded that an overall sale of 13 to 16
million ounces could be accommodated without significant difficulty,
Sprott''s John Embry wins ''The Great Gold Debate'' on ROB-TV
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2005-04-04 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:45p ET Monday, April 4, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The likelihood that the U.S. government is rigging
most major financial markets is explored in detail
in a new essay by Robert Bell, chairman of the
economics department of Brooklyn College of the
City University of New York. Bell cites the
groundbreaking work of GATA board member Michael
Bolser in regard to the Federal Reserve's use of
More agitation to induce Indians to surrender their gold -- and their security
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2005-04-03 04:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1:02p ET Saturday, April 2, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Julian D.W. Phillips, editor of Gold -- Authentic Money,
reports that France seems to have been late in reporting
its gold sales for December and January and that the
European Central Banks are obviously now trying to
manage the gold price but NOT to push it down. You
can find his commentary at GoldSeek here:
GATA Chairman Murphy will speak at Calgary Resource Investment Conference
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2005-04-03 04:00 Section: Daily DispatchesWays to Liquefy Gold --
The 'Financialisation' of Gold
and Real Estate is Important
By Gautam Chikermane
Indian Express, New Delhi
Monday, April 4, 2005
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=67686
Among real assets of any statistical significance, gold and real
estate have a lot of similarities. Both are difficult to track
Michael Kosares: ECB''s gold sales undermine euro''s credibility
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2005-04-03 04:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8p ET Sunday, April 3, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy will be among the speakers
at the 2005 Calgary Resource Investment Conference,
to be held Sunday and Monday, April 10 and 11, at the
Telus Convention Center in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Also speaking will be Bob Bishop of Gold Mining
Stock Report, Paul van Eeden of the Van Eeden
Letter, Peter Grandich of Grandich Publications,
Central bank policy issues like to sway the markets this week
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2005-04-03 04:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
USAGold.com
Sunday, April 3, 2005
http://www.usagold.com/amk/usagoldmarketupdate.html
No sooner had this Market Update featured a report on official-
sector gold sales last week than the European Central Bank (ECB)
announced a surprise: It had sold 47 tonnes of gold. The sales
John Embry: Gold and the greenback
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2005-04-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Brendan Murray
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, April 1, 2005
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000087&sid=akCuaGpZr1Y8&refer=top_world_news
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Governor Ben S. Bernanke is President
George W. Bush's pick to become the next chairman of the
administration's Council of Economic Advisers, the White House said
Contrary Investor: Credit derivatives are now the crucial U.S. industry
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2005-04-02 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:45p ET Saturday, April 2, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Sprott Asset Management's John Embry has
an essay in the April issue of Investors
Digest of Canada, "Gold and the Greenback,"
and you can find it in Adobe Acrobat
format here:
http://www.sprott.com/pdf/investorsdigest/investors_digest_apr_01_200
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