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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 98.59-2.8%Nov 13 4:00 PM EST

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To: Ahda who wrote (62862)1/23/2001 7:09:24 AM
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One would think this would help $ & thereby hurt gold????
Tuesday January 23 4:23 AM ET
Japan's Economic Planner Resigns

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By GARY SCHAEFER, Associated Press Writer

TOKYO (AP) - Japan's top economic planner resigned Tuesday to take responsibility for an influence-peddling scandal that threatens to drag down Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (news - web sites)'s already-low approval ratings.

Fukushiro Nukaga, state minister for the economy, industry and information technology, became the third Cabinet minister to quit in disgrace since Mori took over as prime minister in April.

Speculation that Nukaga would step down had been mounting since he admitted late last month that he had received political contributions from a small-business organization whose founder is suspected of spending heavily to buy favors.

Last week, another ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker was arrested on charges he accepted bribes (cont)
dailynews.yahoo.com
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