Daily Dispatches

8:40p ET Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

China's English-language daily newspaper, China
Daily, today published a major opinion essay by
the head of the economics department of China
Foreign Affairs University. He argued that China
stands to suffer huge losses if it continues to
hold most of its foreign exchange reserves in
U.S. dollars, and he advocated converting those

8:21a ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While an in-the-clear Internet link is not available
for the Dow Jones Newswires story below, GATA has
confirmed its genuineness, so the question becomes
the reliability of the unidentified sources of the
source publication, the British paper The Business.

The consequences of the possible international
financial policy cited by those sources -- a

8:50a ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Newsweek story appended here, published
over the weekend, reiterates the likelihood that
currency exchange rates will get a lot of
discussion when the central bankers meet
this week. It also acknowledges ongoing central
bank manipulation of exchange rates and thus,
implicitly, gold: "It's not always clear where

5:20p ET Monday, September 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA today distributed throughout the United States
via Business Wire a press release about Blanchard
& Co.'s new class-action lawsuit against Barrick
Gold and J.P. Morgan Chase. At this hour the
release has been posted on the home pages of
Kitco.com and TheBullionDesk.com. It is appended
and you can find its Internet link here: