1.   JMB is a member of the London gold market that fixes the price of gold.

2.   As usual, Greenspan avoided questions about the future path of specific markets like the bond, foreign exchange or gold markets.

3.   Ashanti had staked its immediate financial future on a flat gold market, taking out contracts betting that prices would stay low.

4.   Brazilian officials told the Gazeta Mercantil newspaper that someone was claiming the central bank had speculated in the gold market to manipulate the market.

5.   -- The New York Commodity Exchange gold market was closed because of the storm.

6.   A supply crunch in the gold lending market last week pushed short-term gold lease rates to an all-time high Wednesday.

7.   Bullion prices surged earlier this week when a supply crunch in the gold lending market pushed short-term gold lease rates to an all-time high.

8.   But the timing and size of the British announcement Friday caught the gold market by surprise.

9.   But when the bottom fell out of the gold market, she said, Nichols became depressed.

10.   Concern that central banks would sell reserves has weighed on the gold market since the beginning of the year.