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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (14647)	11/18/2008 7:08:22 PM
From: Real Man	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

That's about 60% of all comex gold, including registered, bot in physical market. Iran reportedly converting all its 80 billion in foreign currency reserves into gold. If true, that's north of 3000 tons. Gonna dwarf all CB selling and fully cover 1 year of mining supply, etc. I think those pesky iranians get the picture, gold price suppression as a tool for USD acceptance. They are very pissed at this administration, it was not kind to a lot of foreigners, and almost started a war in Iran. I view them as pretty peaceful folks, US propaganda machine notwithstanding, with the goal of these nuke reports to avert US invasion for OIL! jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (14647)	11/18/2008 8:39:33 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

Related? Scotiabank hit with heavy charge in quarter "Bank of Nova Scotia's fourth-quarter profit will be cut by a larger-than-forecast $890-million charge caused by slumping markets and the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., beginning what analysts expect will be a parade of depressing earnings announcements from the banks. The charge is equivalent to $595-million after tax, Scotiabank said after markets closed Tuesday. The biggest chunk of the losses came from writedowns on stocks, bonds and derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Analysts have been slashing their ratings on Canada's big banks because they continue to grapple with credit market issues at the same time as a plethora of bad economic news makes it evident that their core lending businesses will struggle in future quarters. With markets in a tailspin in the banks' final quarter, which ended Oct. 31, analysts are on the lookout for similar writedowns from other lenders, particularly Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce." More: reportonbusiness.com Jim