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Prosecution report says Citigroup, other banks assisted Parmalat fraud

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Justin Baer
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, July 21, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000103&sid=aHOTE3b.yvJY&refer=us

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the second- biggest U.S.
bank, had a quarterly loss after setting aside $2.3
billion to help settle lawsuits stemming from its role
in the collapse of companies such as Enron Corp.

Manipulation of gold price amid Greenspan testimony is taken for granted now

Section: Daily Dispatches

Wheaton River sells silver production
for over C$262M, creates Silver Wheaton

By Nancy Carr
Canadian Press
Thursday, July 15, 2004

http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=87E8916E-D911-4977-
80DF-73D8AABF47B8

TORONTO -- Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. is
selling all its silver production to a

Ted Butler: Watch these clues for any tapping into Comex silver stores

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Monday, July 19, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Appended are a couple of today's precious metals
market commentaries that may be of interest,
particularly the first, from CBSMarketWatch, which
finds a market analyst talking openly about central
bank manipulation of the gold price.

We probably should expect gold and silver to be
hit hard Tuesday and Wednesday as Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies to

Japan mulls bank merger''s effect on gold demand

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:14p ET Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ted Butler's latest commentary is titled
"Great Expectations" and involves the
hiring of the chairman of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission to become
president of the New York Commodities
Exchange. You can find Butler's commentary
at the Investment Rarities site here:

http://www.investmentrarities.com/07-13-04.html

Wheaton transfers silver production to new company, complicating takeover bid

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jim Hawe
Dow Jones Newswires
Thursday, July 15, 2004

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040715/15/3lpm6.html

TOKYO -- Gold's safe-haven appeal may
become a little tarnished among
Japanese investors if a proposed merger
between two banking giants brings about
some needed stability to the nation's
financial sector.

Still, many industry insiders believe

Ted Butler has ''great expectations'' for new Comex president

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Mathew Ingram
Globe and Mail, Toronto
Saturday, July 10, 2004

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040710.wxrtakingstoc
k10/BNStory/Business/

Gold has always had an almost mystical quality to it,
thanks to its association with legends such as King
Midas and Nebuchadnezzar. For some the yellow

Toronto Globe and Mail: Lots of glitter left in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:30p ET Saturday, July 10, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Some great friends of the cause were brought
together today by Jim Puplava in the roundtable
discussion segment of his "Financial Sense
Newshour" Internet radio program: John Embry,
president of Sprott Asset Management in Toronto;
investor, trader, and market analyst Eric King;
and GATA Chairman Bill Murphy. They discussed

Embry, King, Morgan, and Murphy join Puplava on ''Financial Sense Newshour''

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Sumeet Desai
Reuters
Friday, July 9, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5633567

VATICAN CITY -- UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
(finance minister) Gordon Brown on Friday called
on the International Monetary Fund to revalue its
gold reserves as a way of releasing more money
for debt relief for the world's poorest countries.

British finance minister urges revaluing IMF gold to relieve poor nations'' debt

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:19p ET Thursday, July 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb.com, the South Africa-based Internet site
devoted to persuading the international mining
industry that it should pay no attention to the man
behind the curtain because central banks have only
the most altruistic indifference to the price of
precious metals, was taken over today by indigenous
pro-gold forces.

The coup was manifested in a remarkable essay at

James Turk: Dollar''s bear-market rally is over

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:20p ET Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Not much is likely to be said better today than what
was posted at their Internet sites by Michael Kosares,
proprietor of Centennial Precious Metals in Denver
and the USAGold site, and by Jim Sinclair of
JSMineset.com, so their commentaries are appended
with thanks.

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

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