Respected gold market watcher Jeffrey Christian of CPM Group said Monday afternoon in an interview with CNBC that a market top in gold may be near.

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Nevertheless, Jeffrey Wright, managing director and senior research analyst, looks for gold to get a boost later in the year as U.S. credit issues resurface.

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Jeffrey Christian of CPM Group, a New York commodities research firm, is a gold bull.

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