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Gas market complaints cite failure of U.S. commodity trading regulation
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesDollar Fall Will Come at a Price for All
By Mike Dolan
Economics Correspondent
Reuters
Sunday, November 21, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6876686
WASHINGTON -- The United States is set to turn a blind
eye to the sliding dollar and a deaf ear to protests about
How to write to the SEC to seek an explanation about the NYSE bullion fund
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:24a ET Monday, November 22, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
This AP story printed in the Miami Herald
last week uses the natural gas market to
raise the same questions Ted Butler long
has been raising about the failure of
regulation of U.S. commodity markets in
regard to silver, where speculative
position limits have been inadequate or
not enforced. But at least some big
customers in the gas market are complaining
Dollar is weak in Frankfurt and strong in Santiago
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:52a ET Monday, November 22, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA supporter Mark Lundeen of Minneapolis may
have been the first to answer James Turk's call
to ask the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission to answer for its approval of the
World Gold Council's exchange-traded fund for
gold bullion on the New York Stock Exchange.
Lundeen has e-mailed to the SEC the letter that
is appended here. The page at the SEC's Internet
The New Yorker discovers and gets snide about gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dan Ackman
Forbes
Monday, November 22, 2004
http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/11/22/cx_da_1122topnews.html
On Friday in Frankfurt, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan hinted, without actually predicting, that
the dollar was getting weaker. On Sunday in Berlin,
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said at the Group
Former MineWeb writer David McKay starts Internet site on African mining
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches4p ET Monday, November 22, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If the author of this essay in next week's issue of
The New Yorker magazine had put half as much effort
into researching central bank policy -- and finding
the door shut in his face -- as he put into being
snide about gold, he would have been even more
clever than he thinks he is. But maybe it's no
matter; for when gold starts getting mentioned in
John Brimelow: The problem is China, not the dolla
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches5:35p ET Monday, November 22, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Another journalist from MineWeb has gone off on
his own to start a mining industry news Internet
site, this one with emphasis on Africa. He's
David McKay and the site is MiningMX.com. Their
first home page has a big story about South
African mining entrepreneur Brett Kebble, who
was, incidentally (though it is not mentioned
Resource Investor comments on James Turk''s criticism of gold ETF
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesThe End of Bretton Woods II Is Near;
The Problem is China, Not the Dollar
By John Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, November 22, 2004
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BB6C6FF5D%2DB4BF%
2D4D4F%2DB3C1%2D69A073FFF4C1%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
NEW YORK -- The bad news: The world is drifting into a
Bugs, remember Gene Morlacci, whose example soon may fall to you
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-11-22 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:30p ET Monday, November 22, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Resource Investor's Tim Wood examines GoldMoney
founder James Turk's criticism of the new exchange-
traded gold bullion fund on the New York Stock
Exchange:
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=7154
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
G-20 meeting discusses exchange rates but concludes nothing
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-11-21 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Robin Elsham
AFX Press / Agence-France Press
Friday, November 12, 2004
http://www.fxstreet.com/nou/noticies/afx/noticia.asp?
pv_noticia=1100254316-9e32d306-16911
TOKYO -- Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui said it
would have a stablizing effect on the global financial
system if a clear rival to the U.S. dollar as a key global
James Turk: New bullion fund admits that it may not actually have the gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-11-21 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Noah Barkin and Nick Antonovics
Reuters
Sunday, November 21, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=businessNews&storyID=6876144
BERLIN -- A communique from the G20 group of rich
and developing countries made no explicit reference
to currency swings on Sunday, despite mounting
concern in Europe and Japan over a slide in the U.S.