There was continued pressure on equities overnight and into today’s session as fears spread that the situation in Greece is going to spread further into the Euro Zone. Portugal, Spain, and Italy are now the prime candidates. Some are going as far as saying that the Euro zone is going to break up. Such thinking will bring safe haven buying into gold especially in Europe which is exactly what we saw. Gold in euro terms remains very strong coming in at the PM fix above the 906 level. Clearly, investors on the Continent are very worried about the health of the Euro and are buying large amounts of gold. This safe haven buying is also going to continue to support Dollar priced gold which is why the gold bears at the Comex cannot crack the market lower as they have done in the past even as the entirety of the commodity sector is getting sold off by hedge funds and the US Dollar is floating ever higher. About mid-morning the US equity markets staged a bit of a recovery upwards which brought about a round of short covering as well as some fresh buying in the commodity sector. That allowed gold, which had already begun coming off its worst levels and moving back towards unchanged to come firmly into the plus column. (more)
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