Daily Dispatches

10:42p ET Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood examines the questions
about the security of the gold in the World Gold
Council's exchange-traded bullion fund and finds
that James Turk and GATA have landed an unlikely
ally in the financial establishment: Mitsui's Andy
Smith, never considered much of a friend of gold as
an investment.

Smith calls the bullion fund "a paper claim based on

11:33p ET Monday, December 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you've already helped GATA, please discard this
dispatch. (You know who you are, R.McD., J.G., D.S.,
J-P.S., H.B., M.K., M.R., J.P., H.S.P., and the
rest. ...)

If you have NOT helped GATA yet, please read on and
consider helping us now.

We're not very attentive to fund-raising and thus too
often have relied again and again on the same people.

4:15p ET Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

TheBullionDesk.com today posted an unsigned
editorial defending the World Gold Council's
exchange-traded bullion fund against criticism
and questions from GATA and its consultant,
James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold &
Money Report and founder of GoldMoney.

The Bullion Desk's commentary, headlined
"Allegations About Gold ETF by James Turk

By Joshua Krongold
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000082&sid=aqPFgZJidwjE&refer=canada

NEW YORK -- Canada's dollar fell to a two-week low
and bonds rose after the Bank of Canada refrained
from increasing its 2.5 percent target interest rate
and dropped its pledge to lift the rate "over time."