In the medium to long term, support for gold will come from production problems that curb the expansion of supply, in addition to persisting sovereign-debt issues, Commerzbank says.

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Technically, no, in that gold does not circulate as a medium of exchange.

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In its function as a medium of exchange, medium of payment and store of value, gold is thus, in a sense, a timeless classic.

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