Gold hits $1,200/ounce for the first time since June ~ Market Updates Tips Tricks Recommendations

Monday 8 February 2016

Gold hits $1,200/ounce for the first time since June

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Gold stayed near its highest since June at close to $1,200 an ounce on Tuesday, buoyed by uncertainty over global growth that has kept stock markets under immense selling pressure.

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Spot gold was flat at $1,191.10 an ounce by 0037 GMT. The metal, which thrives on instability in markets elsewhere, rose as high as $1,200.60 on Monday, its strongest since June 22 last year.

Bullion gained 5 percent last week, its biggest such increase since July 2013, boosting gold bull expectations that the price can go higher as global headwinds could make it tough for the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year.

U.S. gold for April delivery was off 0.4 percent at $1,192.70 an ounce.

Economic uncertainty, a weak dollar and falling expectations for U.S. interest rate hikes have spurred the biggest buying spree of gold exchange-traded-funds in nearly five years.
An increasingly important gauge of U.S. inflation tumbled last month to its lowest level since the New York Fed began the survey in mid-2013, in what could be taken as another warning bell for the U.S. central bank.

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