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GATA chairman gets the microphone, and Russia reports record reserves
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-10-21 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesSinking Dollar Rekindles Funds' Memory of a Year Ago
By Jamie McGeever
Reuters
Thursday, October 21, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh99621_2004-10-21_15-13-56_n21404175_newsml
NEW YORK -- Roused by this week's breakout from
the summer doldrums in currency markets, hedge
China''s foreign minister says investment in Canadian resources is only starting
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-10-21 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7p ET Thursday, October 21, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Stanlie Hunt gave the Smartstox microphone to GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy at the recent gold conference
in Toronto, and you can watch and listen to the
"King of the Gold Bugs" here:
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hunt/oct192004.html
Appended is a story from today's edition of the
Five major currencies have fallen behind gold since July
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-10-21 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesChina Set to Buy Up Canada's Resources;
Noranda Takeover is Just a Start,
Foreign Minister Tells Geoffrey York in Beijing
ByGeoffrey York
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Thursday, Oct 21, 2004
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041021.wchina21/B
NStory/International/
China's Communist rulers have a blunt message for
James Turk: Dollar has broken down out of its recent trading range
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-10-20 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesHistory Repeating
By Marc Faber
www.DailyReckoning.com
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Investors should never forget the lessons of the South
Sea Bubble and John Law's experiment with paper
money, as discussed in Friday's Reckoning. The
Mississippi Scheme in particular is relevant to the
current situation in the United States; in fact, there
are several lessons contemporary investors can
learn from John Law's rise and ultimate demise.
Having presided in scandal at Citigroup, Rubin seeks political return with Kerry
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy The Associated Press
11:05p ET Sunday, October 17, 2004
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041018/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices&cid=509&ncid=716
SINGAPORE -- The price of crude oil surged past
an unprecedented $55 per barrel Monday amid
continued uncertainty over production, high
demand, and tight supply globally.
Are foreign central banks and investors tiptoeing away from the dollar?
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesCiti's Bob Rubin Is Back In The Game;
Politics, that is. He has Kerry's ear, and
that improves the candidate's credibility
By Marcia Vickers
Business Week
October 25, 2004
http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905097_mz020.htm
On Oct. 12, the eve of the presidential debate
focusing on the economy and other domestic
SEC''s investigation of Fannie Mae gets serious
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBearish on Uncle Sam?
As Foreign Investment Shows Decline, Economists Keep Watch
By Jonathan Weisman and Ben White
Washington Post
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43402-2004Oct18.html
NEW YORK -- On Sept. 9, as it must frequently do, the
U.S. government turned to Wall Street to raise a little
Another mainstream press story notes that central banks are propping up U.S.
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6547505
WASHINGTON -- U.S. mortgage finance giant Fannie
Mae said on Tuesday the Securities and Exchange
Commission had changed the status of its
investigation of the company's accounting to
formal from informal.
Ted Butler: Market rigging is blowing up but silver miners still don''t see it
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesPrivate Investors Abroad
Cut their Investments in U.S.
By Eduardo Porter
The New York Times
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/business/worldbusiness/19dollar.html
?ex=1099219293&ei=1&en=787550cf64944fa5
The flow of foreign capital contracted in August as
private investors lost some of their appetite for
Marc Faber: Excess liquidity can slosh into commodities and push them up fast
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-10-19 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesRight In Front of Our Eyes
By Theodore Butler
www.InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
There were two extraordinary developments last
week. Although the connection was not made
openly, they were very much related.
The first development was the historic one-day
selloff in the base metals on October 13. It is
difficult to recall a day when metals such as
copper, aluminum, zinc, and lead fell by as much