Gold could see safe-haven demand occur due to the expected wrangling among U.S. lawmakers.
The gold bulls are disappointed their precious yellow metal did not see good safe-haven demand surface Tuesday.
Gold will continue to see safe-haven investment demand amid the keener uncertainty and anxiety in the market place.
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But assuming we never see safe-authentication laws for online registrations, there is still a lot of awareness to be raised.
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Conversely, more bitter wrangling by U.S. government officials and a mostly hollow agreement on taxing and spending measures could see fresh safe-haven investment demand for gold, and to a lesser degree silver.
While gold has not recently seen fresh safe-haven investment demand due to the EU debt crisis, my bias is that a serious escalation in the crisis, such as the EU starting to break up, would see good safe-haven demand come back into the gold market.
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It was an encouraging development for the gold market bulls on Tuesday to see some fresh safe-haven investment demand surface after such had appeared absent the past few weeks.
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In an interesting aside, how many of you have heard some of the talking heads on TV mention that people who see gold as a safe-haven store of value are out of touch or strange?
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When you look at the pathetic support for Bowles-Simpson when it was actually put to a vote in the House last March -- 16 Republicans and 22 Democrats supported it -- you see why cynicism is always a safe bet in Washington.
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Most traders who expect to see higher prices said people are seeking a safe-haven in the fresh concerns over the European banking system and until the situation there is seen as less dire, gold will find support.
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Given the heightened uncertainty in the market place Tuesday, it would not be surprising to see gold prices produce a rally, on more safe-haven investment demand.
Yet, because investors see bonds as so safe, they are now the fastest-growing type of emerging-market debt.
The safe-haven gold market will likely continue to see some underlying investment demand from the ongoing EU debt crisis.
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"I have seen factories in (Bangladesh and other countries), and I know how difficult it is to monitor the factories to see they are safe, " says Walter Loeb, a New York-based retail consultant.
The fund industry hopes that as Europeans are forced to think harder about their old age, many will come to see that safe investments such as bonds and bank deposits generate lower long-run returns than equities do.
We will not be safe if we see national security as a wedge that divides America -- it can and must be a cause that unites us as one people and as one nation.
He reckons the world does not have to become a lot more scary, to see a very large increase in demand for "safe" assets like gilts - and a correspondingly sharp decline in the interest rate which the government needs to pay.
"In this study, we see that surveillance alone was safe, " said Dr. Clifford Hudis, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Far-sighted investors should see Africa's challenges as opportunities and should consider investing in the many safe countries on this continent.
It's only when you're outside in the dark that you look back and see that the safety zone you always took for granted wasn't a safe zone at all -- just a temporary reprieve from disaster.
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The alternative was to see the private sector's assault on defined-benefit pensions escalate into the public sector, the last safe bastion of such benefits.
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