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Gold/Mining/Energy : Samex Mining | OTC:BB - SMXMF | Canada - V.SXG
SMXMF 0.00010000.0%Sep 10 5:00 PM EST

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To: Travbfree who wrote (415)2/7/2000 12:31:00 PM
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(This article by Bill Murphy starts at post #410 and reads in sequence to #417)

So what does all this mean for the gold price and for
the share prices of the gold companies of your choice?

Many of you are concerned that Friday's move up will be
just another blip.

Let me begin by prefacing what my thoughts are with
this email from Cafe member Peter S.:

"Recently I've noticed that the lease rate is very low,
0.5 percent, which suggests that plenty of gold is
available for lease (possibly from the U.S. Treasury)
but there are few takers.

"As memory serves me, this is quite the opposite of the
last spike in gold, which occurred when lease rates
were much higher. This suggests that the latest gold
spike is due to a dearth of lessees willing to take the
risk of runaway gold prices, while the first spike was
due to the perception that the amount of leased gold
was going to dry up. This is an important difference
that in no small part has come about as the result of
GATA and LeMetropoleCafe. You have changed the market
perception in a major way."

Pete is right-on. The risk of borrowing gold becomes
more apparent by the day. Who cares if the lease rate
is 0.4 or 1 percent? None of that matters if the gold
price can go bonkers to the upside in hours and thereby
turn a 1 percent gold loan into a 25 percent gold loan
-- or worse, due to having to pay the gold back at a
higher price than it was borrowed at.

The "such a deal" gold loan is becoming a dinosaur. The
supply hitting the market from those trades will
disappear.

That is a big blow to the manipulation crowd. Things
are going to get more painful for them.

There is no reason we could not see $365 gold this
coming week. Why not? Friday's action was more
explosive early in the move than in late September.

That may or may not happen, but I stick with my big-
picture outlook. It is my opinion that a fair
supply/demand equilibrium price for gold today (with
the manipulation game players exiting stage left) is
around $600 per ounce. That is the gold price I expect
to see flashing on the scoreboard before the end of the
year if the manipulation buggers have to run for the
hills.

As for the price of silver, $9.78 was my silver price
target all last year. Since the current price just
above $5 has held, too much silver has been devoured at
too cheap a price. We could see $12 silver this year.

The investment game plan all along has had that price
in mind as a realistic target. It will come. And that
is why I stayed with my favorite gold and silver
investments all this time. The risk-reward ratio does
not get any better.

The Gold Shares

On Tuesday an analyst for Deutsche Bank (one of the
Hannibal Cannibals) analyst DOWNGRADED Placer Dome. And
Placer Dome soared 24 percent the next day.

Great call!

Until Friday the gold shares were being given up for
mortsville. Nobody wanted them. My how things change in
a day. Well, not really yet. But very soon gold shares
will be the "in" thing.

One reason for the horrible performance of the gold
shares is that big gold funds are being dismantled
while portfolio managers who invested in gold shares
are being fired. For example, an entire six-man crew in
the Ohio State Pension Fund was let go. They loved the
future for gold shares -- Homestake in particular --
and were canned for it.

I have had many queries the past two months. What is
wrong with Homestake? What was wrong was the money
managers who inherited the Ohio State Pension Fund gold
share equities. They were selling since $10 and drove
the price of Homestake down to just above $6. Nothing
wrong with the company, just the misinformed judgment
of those who have just fired those portfolio managers.

That is another anecdotal sign of a major, major bottom
in the gold shares.

(This article is concluded on post #417)
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