Daily Dispatches

MIDAS COMMENTARY FOR MAY 14, 2001

By Bill Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
May 14, 2001

Gold $268.30 up 30 cents
Silver $4.34 up 1 cent

Here's a bombshell from Bob Chapman that fits in perfectly
with the information you have been getting from Midas for
the past four weeks or so. Bob, who is a big GATA supporter
and editor of the International Forecaster, sent us the
following even before he published it in his own newsletter:

10a CT Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

I have just received a report from GATA's heaquarters
in Durban, South Africa, that the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Commmittee and our allegations were discussed
extensively today during the afternoon sesssion of South
Africa's Parliament in Cape Town.

Our South African publicist, Rhoda Fowler, just called
from Durban to report that she is getting hundreds of

By Lisa Sanders
www.CBSMarketWatch.com
May 16, 2001

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Strength in the June gold contract
Wednesday gave equities a lift and propelled both of the
major metals indices higher by more than 4 percent.

The CBOE Gold Index 1.88 to 42.13, while the Philadelphia
Gold and Silver Index added 2.53 to 61.10. Individually,
Homestake Mining rose by 5.7 percent, or 38 cents, to trade

By Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
May 13, 2001

The GATA African Gold Summit was a huge success.
Before I get into the reasons why, I would like to
thank James Turk, Frank Veneroso, and Reg Howe,
who from four to seven days on their own time to
fly all the way to Durban, South Africa, to bring
some surprising transparency to the gold market.

They were all terrific and are an inspiration to