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• Gold Prices ‘Consolidating,’ Silver Hits 5-Month High

  By Ben Traynor  |  February 28, 2012

  Gold prices hit $1,781 per ounce Tuesday lunchtime in London – 0.3% off last week's high – while stocks and the euro gained, as euro-zone leaders postponed a decision on whether to increase the size of the single currency bailout fund.

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  Gold to $2,500 If Euro Breaks Up – Capital Economics

  By Mark O'Byrne  |  February 9, 2012

  Gold tested yesterday's lows near $1,725/oz in early trading in Asia prior to ticking higher to $1,740 towards the end of the trading day with surprisingly strong inflation figures from China helping. Bullion corrected to $1,730/oz as markets in Europe opened.

• This Time is Different - Yeah, Right

  By Jon Nadler  |  December 6, 2011

  Gold prices once again broke below moving averages as sellers emerged in the wake of a fresh party spoiler by rating agency S&P. With just hours to go prior to the pivotal EU meeting the by now notorious firm issued a blanket warning on euro-zone debt

• Mood[y] Rings

  By Jon Nadler  |  July 14, 2011

  Gold prices opened at the $1,587.00 mark in New York this morning, gunning for a ninth consecutive session of gains on the back of the global debt maelstrom that appears to be sweeping up everything and everyone on its destructive path.

• Plotting Plosser's Plan

  By Jon Nadler  |  March 28, 2011

  New York's Monday trading session saw gold prices opening on a defensive footing due to a shift in investor sentiment across the globe. Spot trading in the gold started off with a loss of $19 per troy ounce and Silver spot prices fell by 80 cents.

• Now We're Talking Turkey

  By Jon Nadler  |  November 24, 2010

  Overnight trading in precious metals offered little in the way of excitement as more gains in the US dollar (and corresponding losses in the euro) coupled with the imminent hiatus in the US, kept trading ranges confined and advances shallow.

• Tres Amigos Seguros!

  By Jon Nadler  |  September 3, 2010

  The dollar-yen-swissy trio are seen by some as providing a more liquid, secure umbrella than gold for dodging falling assets.

• Gold Rallies Ahead of Bernanke Testimony, Stress Test Results

  By Adrian Ash  |  July 21, 2010

  Gold bullion prices jumped late-morning in London on Wednesday, reversing the week's 1.5% drop to new two-month lows, as the euro and Japanese yen both slipped against the dollar.