
GOLD HIGHER AS DOLLAR SLUMPS
Gold is moving higher on the New York Spot Market as of 11:38 a.m. EST as the U.S. dollar slumps and the euro rallies to a fresh two-month high. Gold just recently began trading in tandem with the euro again. Many analysts believe gold will remain in tight trading range in the near-term as investors digest earnings results and economic data – key indicators of the strength of the global economic recovery. "I think we'll probably be in [the $1,200-$1,265] range for most of the summer," says Brian Hicks, co-manager of the U.S. Global Investors Global Resources Fund. "[Then] I think we will break out above that sometime in the fall when we hit that seasonally strong period for gold." (The Street, 7/14/10)
Stocks are mixed Wednesday as investors weigh upbeat corporate results with an unexpected drop in retail sales. "Earnings have been quite outstanding and the market has been in pretty good shape lately, but markets can't like everything about all the earnings reports," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics. "At some point you're going to have to look for this to settle down." (CNN Money, 7/14/10)
A Chinese credit agency dealt a blow to the United States this weekend by downgrading the U.S. to a double-A rating, according to Fortune Magazine. Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. ranks the United States as riskier than a dozen other nations, including China, Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia. The company says it is privately owned, though the state-run Xinhua news agency presented the findings as China's own sovereign credit rating report. The agency further stated that slow growth and budget problems could prompt further downgrades here and in other big Western economies. (Fortune, 7/14/10)


- S&P Capital IQ - Gold: $1,900 (in 2012) "Leo Larkin, metals and mining analyst at S&P Capital IQ, thinks that $1,900 gold might not be that much of a stretch [in 2012]. 'Gold has been ..."
- Citigroup - Gold: $2,300 - $2,400 (by end of 2012) "While we remain cautious on Gold in the near term...we continue to believe that the bull market remains intact...we believe that 2012 may be..."
- Leeb Capital Management - Gold: $2,500 - $3,000 (in 2012) "I'll give you my target for gold at the end of 2012, it's going to be trading somewhere between $2,500 and $3,000. This..."
- Global Hunter Securities - Gold: $1,800 (in 2012) "'What I am looking for is a gold price of $1,800 an ounce in 2012,' says Jeffrey Wright, senior research analyst at Global Hunter..."
- US Global Investors - Gold: $3,600 (by 2017) "'People get so caught up with the next three minutes for gold and they should really be focused on the next three years,' says Frank Holmes, ..."
- Goldman Sachs - Gold: over $1,900 (in 2012) "Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that gold's bull run will continue into 2012 with a low interest rate environment and..."
- CNBC - Gold: $2,400 (no period given) "Gold will top $2,400 an ounce. The long-term bull market in gold marches on. Gold won't make a straight shot to a new inflation-adjusted high. As long..."
- Nomura - Gold: $2,000 (by end of 2012) "Nomura has raised its forecast for gold prices to $2,000 an ounce by the end of 2012, from $1,800 earlier. The brokerage said the low-interest rate..."
- Morgan Stanley - Gold: $2,200 (in first half of 2012) "Gold will lead a rally in commodities in 2012 as Europe's sovereign-debt crisis continues to roil financial markets, spurring demand for ..."
- UBS - Gold: $2,050 average in 2012 "[Gold] remains one of the top commodity picks for 2012 as 'most of the factors that pushed gold higher in 2011 are not going away,' according to UBS..."
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Gold: $2,150 - $2,200 (average in 2012) "From a technical perspective we believe that the bull trend for gold remains intact… with gold having not yet met any of..."
- TheStreet.com - Gold: $2,500 (by May 2013) "I want to own gold here. I think gold is going to $2,500 eighteen months from now... Gold has been up for ten straight years and this going to be the..."









