Daily Dispatches

By Barry Riley
The Financial Times
www.ft.com
October 6, 2000

You may think the stock market is stuck in a rut, but
spare a thought for the gold bullion traders who are in
an even worse fix.

They have watched, from the sidelines, a panic develop
over the euro and an alarming spike form in the oil
price. So what has happened in that historical nest of
speculation over currencies and inflation, the gold

DENVER, Oct. 4 (Reuters) -- Is gold a currency, a
monetary standard, a mere commodity, or all three?

That was the question as international mining companies
and investors attending the annual Denver gold show
plugged gold's historic money role as a key to
eventually restoring the embattled industry's
prospects.

But the sad irony is that the once-venerated yellow
metal is behaving too much like a currency -- one that

Homestake Mining's Thompson
on Gold Prices and Stock

By Claudia Carpenter

Denver, Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Here is comment by Jack
Thompson, chief executive of Homestake Mining Co., the
seventh-largest gold mining company, on the company's
stock and gold prices. The comments were made during a
gold investment conference in Denver. Shares of Walnut
Creek, Calif.-based Homestake fell today to their

9:30p EDT Wednesday, October 25, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The essay by Jim Sinclair at www.moneywebusa.com,
which I sent to you yesterday, has caused some
controversy because of its approval of the central
banks' recent handling of gold.

While Sinclair's approval of the central banks is
contrary to GATA's views, I thought that his essay
on the whole was important and interesting, a major