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Different gold share indexes track unhedged producers'' lead over hedgers

Section: Daily Dispatches

From quot;Midasquot; commentary for Tuesday, May 7, 2002
Copyright 2002, www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
Used by permission

By Bill Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
May 7, 2002

This morning I received a phone call from the best of
sources in South Africa. The source has a friend who
spent some time recently with two J.P. Morgan Chase
senior bankers. The friend was told by the Morgan
people that they have quot;lost control of the gold market

Bigger money flowing into gold, and GATA''s Murphy gets some credit for it

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Thom Calandra
www.CBS.MarketWatch.com
May 20, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO -- When the saints come marching in, you
want to be in their number.

The gold market, surging Monday, is luring large investors
stymied by low or negative returns in their core stock-market
holdings. Managers of $100 million or more are establishing
hundreds of new positions in Placer Dome Gold, Anglogold,
Gold Fields, and Newmont Mining, the world's largest gold

GATA chairman prepares for mining analyst conference in London

Section: Daily Dispatches

Sunday, May 19, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

I am spending my weekend preparing for the
mining analyst conference in London next
coming Thursday. What fun!

Many GATA supporters are coming to this
conference from all over the world. I am
especially looking forward to meeting the
famed novelist Arthur Hailey, who has done so
much for GATA. What a thrill it will be for
me to meet him!

NY Post''s John Crudele picks up on the gold price story

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:23a ET Thursday, May 16, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to the New York Post and its business writer,
John Crudele, for picking up on the gold story today
with the column appended here. This is a nice little
bomb dropped on the gold price suppressors in the
heart of the financial markets.

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

* * *

The strange books of Barrick Gold, and a warning to Newmont Mining

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The danger of gold derivatives is tonight's
topic.

Reg Howe's partner in Golden Sextant Advisors
LLC, Robert K. Landis, has written a brilliant,
incisive, and wickedly funny essay examining
the financial books of Barrick Gold. While he
is a lawyer, Bob shows great gifts as a financial
and investigative journalist. You can read his

MiningWeb.com stories about Newmont and hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:19p ET Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's more excellent journalism tonight at
TheMiningWeb.com -- a couple of stories that
also involve Newmont and hedging. Go to
TheMiningWeb.com's home page:

a href=http://www.theminingweb.com/http://www.theminingweb.com//a

The headlines are:

quot;Newmont's dire hedging prediction comes true:

and

quot;Barrick's Australian headachequot;

Whither the World Gold Council?

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:07a ET Monday, May 13, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's a good essay tonight at TheMiningWeb
speculating on the future of the World Gold
Council and the awkward departure of its
chief executive officer, Haruko Fukuda.

You can find the essay here:

a href=http://www.mips1.net/MGLdn.nsf/Current/8525690B0032142042256BB7005875Fht...

CBSMarketWatch''s Calandra finds GATA''s Murphy at the front in the gold war

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:15p ET Monday, May 13, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thom Calandra, editor of CBSMarketWatch.com,
today featured GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and his
proprietary Internet site, www.LeMetropoleCafe.com,
in his daily commentary. More than any other
journalist in the mass media, Calandra continues to
tell the world about gold. Please thank him and check
out a href=http://CBS.MarketWatch.com.http://CBS.MarketWatch.com./a

More than one departure at Morgan Chase

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:02 CT Friday, May 10, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

An excerpt from www.TheMiningWeb.com.

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85256BB500659ACE?OpenDocument

Gold hedging mastermind
contemplates retirement

By Tim Wood

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- The man credited
more than anyone else with spawning the gold

God bless Thom Calandra, who, almost alone in the financial media, gets it

Section: Daily Dispatches

WALLOPED DOLLAR TO ACCELERATE GOLD

By Thom Calandra
CBSMarketWatch.com
May 10, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The possession of gold,
Thomas Bailey Aldridge once said, has ruined fewer
men than the lack of it.

This column isn't about Aldridge, the American short-story
writer who quit school at age 13 to write for 19th-century
magazines. I just put it there so you can turn away from this

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