Daily Dispatches

4:31p CT Friday, November 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This seems to have been the week when GATA's publicizing
J.P. Morgan Chase's suppression of the gold price through a
huge issuance of derivatives exploded in the mainstream
financial press. Today's examination of the issue comes in
a long story in Canada's National Post, appended here.

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

By JACQUIE MCNISH AND WENDY STUECK
Globe amp; Mail, Toronto
Friday, November 8, 2002
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER -- Placer Dome Inc. shares have
been caught up in a torrent of trading as major mining players
mull possible takeover scenarios.

Industry sources said a number of foreign and domestic mining
companies have privately expressed interest in acquiring some

By Sue Thomas

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 8. (Reuters) -- South Africa's second-largest
gold producer Gold Fields on Friday denied market talk that it is
about to make a bid for Canadian peer Placer Dome Inc, but its
share price still fell on investor concerns.

quot;It's a vicious rumour and there is no substance to it,quot; Gold Fields
spokesman Willie Jacobsz told Reuters.

Gold Fields' share price tumbled 8 percent to a late-session low of

Goldman, JPM face 'laddering' action;
SEC cracking down on IPO practice

By Steve Gelsi
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002

NEW YORK -- The Securities and Exchange Commission
notified Goldman Sachs Group and JP Morgan Chase
that it recommended filing civil securities-fraud and
market-manipulation charges against the firms for
directing shares of initial public offerings to clients