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''Midas'' commentary for April 1 posted in the clear at FreemarketNews.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:56p ET Thursday, April 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Doug Hornig of Casey Research has written a good
interview of silver market analyst and GATA
consultant Ted Butler, which has been posted at
Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hornig/apr012004.html

As the silver price has broken above $8, a Bloomberg
story about the metal and its prospects is appended.

Do your duty to the free-market cause -- get your real metal (while you can)

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:21p ET Thursday, April 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for
April 1 at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been posted in
the clear in Adobe Acrobat format at
FreemarketNews.com here:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

Yen soars to four-year peak against dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:27p ET Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The column headlines in the chart in Ted Butler's commentary
just dispatched didn't reproduce correctly. The columns are
as follows:

1) Commodity. 2)Gross Commercial Long. 3) Gross
Commercial Short. 4) Short Ratio.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

Concentration in derivatives business is nothing to fear, Morgan executive says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Christina Fincher
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4711805

LONDON, March 31 -- The yen smashed through a key
psychological barrier to hit a four-year high against the
dollar on Wednesday as investors sensed Japan was
scaling back yen-selling intervention going into the new

Sprott''s Canada stock fund favors gold bars, cash

Section: Daily Dispatches

J.P. Morgan Exec Dismisses Derivatives Worries

By Tara Murphy
Forbes.com
Wednesday, March 31, 2004

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2004/03/31/cx_tm_0331video2.html?
partner=yahoo&referrer=

NEW YORK -- J.P. Morgan Chase investment banking Chairman
Daid Coulter is dismissing concern about concentration in
the derivatives markets.

Smaller gold miners get acquisition itch; Seabridge gets AMEX listing

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Matt Mossman
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, March 31, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000103&sid=a_gthC3UTolQ&refer=us

TORONTO -- Eric Sprott has transformed his Canadian Equity
Fund, the best performer in Canada for the last five years,
into what might be described as the Canadian Equity, Gold,
and Cash Fund.

Marc Faber turns deflationist: Brace for a bust as bubbles look set to burst

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:52p ET Monday, March 29, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Richard Russell's new commentary sees a big flow
of funds out of general equities around the world. He
writes in commentary just posted at Gold-Eagle:

"The stock market is in the process of building a top
to this counter-trend rally. The top has got to 'look
good.' Why? Because the better the top looks, the
longer the big money has to move out of stocks and

A second start for World Gold Council''s bullion fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

Brace for a bust as bubbles look set to burst

By Marc Faber
Financial Times
Monday, March 29, 2004

http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?
id=040329001260&query=Marc+Faber&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form

Credit has to be given to Alan Greenspan, the Federal
Reserve chairman.

He is the first head of a monetary authority who has not

Newmont-Barrick deal isn''t so farfetched, for they''ve dealt before

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:48a ET Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The World Gold Council's bullion fund in London has
reconfigured itself a little and is attempting today a
second debut, one with more investment funds
eligible to own it. MineWeb reports about it here:

http://trinity.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/42256E2B005E0A2E42256E6500

Wheaton River to merge with IAMGOLD, breaking into top 10 gold miners

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Mathew Ingram
Globe and Mail, Toronto
Monday, March 29, 2004

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040329.wmath0329
/BNStory/Business

According to a report in Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper,
Denver-based gold producer Newmont Mining is planning a
takeover bid for Toronto-based Barrick Gold -- in part because

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