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Financial Times reports on Russia''s flirtation with the euro
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WASHINGTON (Agence France-Presse) -- The US
administration has embarked on a risky strategy to
bring down the value of the dollar as part of an
effort to keep a fragile economic recovery on track.
Analysts say the US effort could alleviate some
Welcome to the weak dollar policy
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Oct. 8 (Reuters) -- A German
government source said on Wednesday that Russia may
switch to pricing oil sales in euros rather than dollars,
potentially huge news for financial markets.
However, Russian energy and finance ministry officials
said they were unable to confirm any change was planned.
Russia may switch oil pricing to euros, German source says
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2003-10-08 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:24a ET Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
CBSMarketWatch Editor Thom Calandra's latest
quot;StockWatchquot; column is an interview with
Ashanti Gold CEO Sam Jonah, and may be
especially interesting for Jonah's remark that
the International Monetary Fund is discouraging
the government of Ghana from investing in new
gold mines.
You can find Calandra's column here:
Central banks declare they''ll do anything to stop free market but nobody gets it
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2003-10-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:29p ET Monday, October 6, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
South African gold market analyst Victor Hugo has produced
as complete an endorsement of GATA's work as we've gotten.
He writes tonight:
quot;After weeks of work to get up to the $380s, just about every
precious metals trader I talk to confirms that the footprints
and timing of price action in recent weeks suggest massive
IMF discourages gold mining investment in Ghana, Ashanti CEO tells Calandra
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2003-10-07 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stella Dawson
Chief ECB Correspondent
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FRANKFURT, Oct. 6 (Reuters) -- European policymakers
warned on Monday against too rapid foreign exchange
movements, in what analysts called an attempt to slow
the euro's rapid ascent against the dollar.
Gold has ''powerful enemies,'' Financial Post observes in passing
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2003-10-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7:53p ET Sunday, October 5, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA consultant James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney
and editor of The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report, has
written a detailed description of how the U.S. government
ran the stops in the gold market on Friday and how it
intervenes in the gold market generally. Turk also has
discovered new discrepancies in the gold accounting by
Lots of good reading tonight -- and a happy ending to Friday''s rout of gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2003-10-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:23p ET Monday, October 6, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
This article from Canada's Financial Post is interesting
for acknowledging, in passing, that gold has quot;powerful
enemies.quot; The author doesn't go into details, but he may
have figured that this was the most he could get published
at the moment without risking transfer to the sewer
commission beat and that you could figure it out.
Traders are getting wise to bank intervention against gold, Hugo writes
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2003-10-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:56p ET Monday, October 6, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Here's a great read about a small conference on silver
mining recently held in Idaho. It's a reminder that all
real productivity and wealth involve the extractive
industries, the use of the physical substances of the
planet to make real things.
a href=http://www.321gold.com/editorials/bond/bond093003.htmlhttp://www.321gold...
''Financial Sense Newshour'' interviews Sprott''s Embry and Central Fund''s Spicer
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2003-10-05 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:45a ET Saturday, October 4, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, attending the Calgary
Resource Investment Conference, just sent the
dispatch below to subscribers at LeMetropoleCafe.com,
and given the disturbing action in the gold and silver
markets on Friday, he probably would not object to
sharing it with you.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
How government manipulates the gold price -- and how it worked Friday
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2003-10-05 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:29a ET Sunday, October 5, 2003
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Jim Puplava interviews John Embry, president of Sprott
Asset Management in Toronto and manager of Sprott's
precious metals fund, and Stefan Spicer, CEO of Central
Fund of Canada, the gold and silver bullion fund, on
the latest edition of the quot;Financial Sense Newshour.quot;
Embry endorses GATA's finding about the gold market