Gold Still Below $1200 | Silver & Platinum Gains

Posted on 09 August 2010

Gold still remains under $1200 at the end of the week after the results of stress tests of 91 Banks in Europe, where only 7 banks failed to prove they would survive financial crisis. After the results, the faith of governments in their financial institutions was restored to some extent, in relation to the ongoing debt situation in Europe.

Traders who are losing in equities markets are now dumping precious metals and other safe haven assets to recover their losses. However gold which has been declining over the past couple of weeks doesn’t seem to make a potential gain in the near future. Analysts predict that gold price will further drop to US$ 1,165 by the end of August. Meanwhile other precious metals such as silver and platinum have gained and are at $18.14 and $1544 respectively.

Gold is currently at $1,186.4 and it is expected that when market will open after 48 hrs, the price of gold will fall $3 and will reach around $1,183. Gold prices are falling due to the last week’s affect on consumer price index (CPI) which declined about 0.1% to restrain inflation fears and the situation will not improve unless the worsening fiscal situation in Europe and the economic recovery in US is firmly dealt with.

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