Posted on 06/18/2010 4:29:13 PM PDT by AAABEST
The price of gold reached $1,261.90 on Friday, its highest price level.
The euphoria which has sent gold rocketing began to simmer at the week's end as the U.S. dollar rally finally appeared to be waning.
Gold is priced in U.S. dollars so the price tends rise when the currency falls. The euro, quoted at near 1.18 not more than a week ago, was flirting with 1.24 Friday.
Gold is regarded as a safe-haven asset and its demand has been boosted by recent sovereign debt concerns particularly in Europe.
The precious metal was quoted near its record-high at $1,256.65 an ounce at 3:20pm Friday, a $13.25 gain on the previous day's close.
"I think it is a case of gold's ability to compete with both credit and equity markets for investments. Competing with credit markets has been in play for a long time, because of low interest rates and low opportunity cost of holding gold," Tom Pawlicki, precious metals analyst at MF GLOBAL in Chicago told Reuters Thomson.
"The (economic) data yesterday from initial claims and Philadelphia Fed was another thing indicating to investors that the economic recovery will be subpar compared with other recession recoveries. That makes gold more attractive," he said.
Gold is up nearly 15% this year. "Sovereign debt worries, central banks raising their holdings and record low interest rates keep attracting new buyers to gold," Saxo Bank senior manager Ole Hansen was quoted as saying by Reuters Thomson.
"The Goldilocks scenario continues. Risk-off helps gold through safe haven (buying), risk-on helps it as well through a weaker dollar."
To paraphrase, what's happening is that when markets go down, investors are buying gold to keep their money safe. When markets go up, investors are buying gold because they fear inflation.
IOW, investors don't see any paper (stocks, bonds, currencies, whatever) as safe.
Thank you FRiend for posting that link to the Fox Biz video... saved me the trouble!
The dollar is being sacrificed to fund supporting the stock market and the Euro.
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Bout time to dig out the ol’gold pan...;0)
(if I was 30 years younger!)...
They know that when people are going to ask banks for gold deposits in exchange for worthless bonds that GOLD will be going way way up. Right now our ftard liberal WallStreet is not listening to us, but it will not stop them from asking for a bailout once those companies will be worth zilch as they will be marketed in dollars and their imports of raw materials will go way way up... and prices will sky rocket... notwithstanding the drilling issue.
Good by Barbaria libtard college America.
Silver closed around $19.20
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