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Here''s what happens when foreigners get tired of dollar depreciation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Banks' Derivative Use Jumps 23% in 2nd Quarter;
Financial Policy Forum Calls for More Regulation of Market

By Alistair Barr
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BFE7D921D%2D60B0%
2D4188%2D9F8A%2DEF9EC9084915%7D&siteid=mktw

SAN FRANCISCO -- Banks' derivative use jumped by 23

Only foreigners, dumping dollars, will ever straighten out U.S. govt. finances

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:54p ET Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In commentary titled "Buy America II: The First
Shoe Drops," Richard Appel gives you an idea
of what is likely to happen when foreigners get
tired of holding an ever-depreciating stash of
dollars. They start dumping U.S. Treasury debt
and buying real stuff, driving up interest rates
and unleashing inflation, and, Appel says, it's

Even Russia''s central bank is intervening to prop up the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

China to Build Four Major Oil Reserve Bases

People's Daily, Beijing
Sunday, October 10, 2004

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200410/10/eng20041010_159641.html

China will formally launch its strategic petroleum
reserve program next year, as learned from related
departments. An oil reserve base in Zhenhai

Huge increase in banks'' use of derivatives; Morgan Chase''s exposure is greatest

Section: Daily Dispatches

Rouble Trades at New Central Bank Dollar Support Level

By Reuters
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh31397_2004-10-12_08-01-08_l12643544_newsml

MOSCOW -- Russia's central bank intervened on the
rouble market with a lower dollar bid on Tuesday after
retreating in the previous session under appreciation

Gold may climb on higher oil costs, lower dollar, Bloomberg survey says

Section: Daily Dispatches

From "Midas" commentary
for Sunday, October 10, 2004
at LeMetropoleCafe.com

By Bill Murphy

GATA has struck paydirt once again. The following is an
exchange between a supporter in our GATA army and
Rainer Widera, head of international financial statistics
for the Bank for International Settlements.

* * *

Dear Sir:

I am looking for some information on the gold market.

Big selloff in silver is likely -- time for miners to buy their own metal

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Choy Leng Yeong
Bloomberg News
Monday, October 11, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000086&sid=agSnHMbsUztk&refer=latin_america

Gold may rise for a sixth straight week on speculation
that higher fuel costs will increase the precious metal's
allure as a hedge against inflation, a Bloomberg survey
showed.

Twenty-two of 43 traders, investors and analysts

Expecting free lunch forever, U.S. dollar may be supplanted by Chinese yuan

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
Monday, October 11, 2004

www.InvestmentRarities.com

There has been a dramatic change in the structure of the gold and
silver markets over the past 3 weeks, as indicated by the COT report
and the action since the Tuesday cutoff. In the space of a few short
weeks, the tech funds have bought, and the dealers have sold short
over 75,000 additional net COMEX gold contracts and 25,000 net silver

China planning to accumulate strategic oil reserves in four locations

Section: Daily Dispatches

Eventual lunch bill may spell end to dollar's dominance

By Gary Duncan
The Times, London
Monday, October 11, 2004

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1303426,00.html

Imagine a place where you could spend far more than
you earned for years without consequence. Imagine a
place where you could pay your way by writing

James Turk: 70% chance that gold will break $430 by year-end

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold closes at 6-month high,
up $3 for the week as weak jobs data hurts dollar

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, October 8, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BB65D0BD4%2D7F10%
2D45AA%2DB628%2D79DEAE2CA4B3%7D&siteid=mktw

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold futures closed near $425 an

Finance ministers won''t be selling gold while oil has them quaking

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:15a ET Sunday, October 10, 2004

GoldMoney.com proprietor James Turk, editor of
the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and
consultant to GATA, has gotten out his charts
and predicts that gold has a 70 percent chance
of breaking above $430 by the end of this year,
and that such a breakthrough, a 16-year high,
"will be the wake-up call that sends a stampede
of money out of the dollar and into gold."

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