Daily Dispatches

The Star, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Thursday, June 3, 2004

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?
file=/2004/6/3/nation/8124886&sec=nation

TOKYO -- Japan should stop trying to prop up the U.S.
dollar and instead make the yen the trading currency
of East Asia, said Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

While noting that it was understandable for Japan to

8:35p ET Thursday, June 3, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The program for the 2004 World Gold, PGM, and Diamond
Conference, to be held Sunday and Monday, June 13 and
14, at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre,
was announced today, and it has GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy speaking in prime time -- 6 p.m. Sunday.

Murphy will join GATA's Ed Steer and Mike Bolser and
your secretary/treasurer in a panel discussion at 3 p.m.

12:47a ET Wednesday, June 2, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb's Tim Wood has some musings on the
imbalance in the historic ratio of the prices
of oil and gold. While those musings don't
include speculation as to a cause of the
imbalance, GATA has filled you in about that,
and Wood figures that oil eventually will
carry gold up. You can find Wood's commentary
here:

http://www.mineweb.net/events/conferences/2004/nyigc/oilgold.htm

1:22a ET Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

AIG International has been to the silver market what
N.M. Rothschild has been to the gold market. And
now, as you'll see from the Reuters story appended,
AIG is resigning its leadership of the gold and
silver markets just as Rothschild resigned its
leadership of the gold market.

Maybe it's just a coincidence. Or maybe the people