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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 121.59+2.2%Dec 26 4:00 PM EST

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To: Alex who wrote (39696)8/27/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 116830
 
Central banks under threat

<< Many of the world's central banks may soon lose their independence or change beyond recognition, according to the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King.

Currency unions, new enthusiasm for so-called "currency boards" and technological changes could soon do away with the traditional role of central banks. >>

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news.bbc.co.uk

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OT - Bank e-mail virus insults investors

<< Japan's Fuji Bank has apologised to some of its biggest investors world-wide after inadvertently sending them e-mails describing them as "jerks".

The bank sent out an e-mail to its key global investors to tell them about the planned merger with Dai Ichi Kangyo and Industrial Bank of Japan.

But the e-mails contained a virus that meant any of the big money men and women who opened it got a surprise message "from Fuji Bank" telling them they were "a big, stupid jerk". >>

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news.bbc.co.uk

Nice PR move on Fuji's part.

:-))
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