Gold can't be measured in the same way as other financial assets, analysts point out.
Still, Pavilonis said, gold can act as a hedge against retreats in other assets.
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Universally recognized as a store of value, gold can be bought and sold in any country.
Part of the Indian obsession with gold can be explained by its scarcity.
Recent weakness in the price of gold can also be blamed on supply.
And a call for gold can be surprising only to those unfamiliar with the glory of the civilization that Dr. Mohamad reflects.
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Research by the World Gold Council released Thursday shows that gold can work as a partial hedge for emerging market currency risk.
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So, the current momentum trade in gold can persist for some time.
Ghost-like mounds of powder-like gold can be seen, forever waiting for transportation to the northern Mexican city of San Luis Potosi for refinement.
However, recent history has shown that the greenback and gold can both appreciate during times of keener investor anxiety in the market place.
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Yes, the dollar price of gold can be volatile, but that's the result of people's uncertainty over what the Fed is going to do about the dollar.
Sterling Smith, commodity trading adviser and market analyst with Country Hedging, said unless gold can stabilize, more speculators may decide to pare back their gross long positions.
If gold can gain in tandem with the dollar, it may have returned to safe-haven status, as normally the gold falls versus the greenback because the metal is denominated in dollars.
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Only six nations - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and the UK - have sold gold in the past five years, not least because of the negative publicity that selling gold can attract.
Banks won't lend the money until much more drilling is done, serious engineering work is completed and a feasibility study is presented sometime in 2004 that shows how much copper and gold can be mined at a profit.
Neil Meader, research director at Thomson Reuters GFMS, said gold can benefit from intervention because investors may decide to leave a market that is being managed, rather than one which is allowed to trade according to market forces.
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With gold production working at full capacity, combined with the massive outstanding paper gold position, increased demand for physical gold can only be satisfied at much higher prices, which we are likely to see in the next few months.
If that large fund trader was the one that purchased the put options on gold futures the day before, or was involved with the firm that did, then it lends credibility to those market watchers who reckon gold can be and has been manipulated.
In that case, investors may bid the stock price up higher than cash flows from the business because the company owns an asset (gold hammers) that is worth far more than a typical hammer (the gold can be sold and traded for regular hammers with a huge surplus).
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Given the torrent of liquidation that has occurred, how much gold can recover depends on how much residual selling remains and the capacity of would-be buyers: clearly gold is priced much more attractively than a few days ago, but buyers will be initially fearful of stepping up amid such nervousness.
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Rather than seeing how many creatures a player can kill or how much gold they can accumulate, Flack is more interested in getting inside the player's head.
If you want to invest in gold you can just go and buy some gold.
Click to EnlargeThe yearly chart of the Comex Gold futures can give an excellent long-term view of the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD), which does not have as much trading history.
Trying to predict the direction of something like the gold price can be a dangerous undertaking.
The cost of your gold insurance can be a miscellaneous itemized deduction--if you take those.
To implement such a policy, they should currently be busy secretly buying all the gold they can.
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The uneasiness that has prompted higher gold prices can be found everywhere, but especially in the developed world.
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