John Crockett

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GOLD NEWS: WEEKLY UPDATE 3RD FEBRUARY 2012
US Jobs Data Caps Gold’s Rise in a Subdued Market Gold struggled to maintain the positive tone of the year to date, as news that US unemployment hit its lowest rate for two years pushed equities higher and precious metals lower on Friday. Payrolls...
2012-02-04 10:29:32

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Gold News: Monthly Review January 2012
  Gold bounced strongly from a weak December performance, with renewed buying from India helping a more positive investment outlook generally to push gold to a close of nearly $1750 at the end of the month and an increase of 10.77% on the month....
2012-02-01 15:55:14

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GOLD NEWS: WEEKLY MARKET UPDATE, WEEK ENDING 27TH JANUARY 2012
Gold Has Tremendous Week as Political and Economic Woes Persist After consolidating at around last week’s closing level in the early part of the week, the gold price took off on Wednesday. Precious metals in general reacted positively to the United...
2012-01-29 04:42:46

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GOLD NEWS: Weekly Market Update for the week ending 20th January 2012
Gold breaks through technical resistance, signals turn bullish. Increased buying from India, together with a better investment environment overall, sparked further increases in the price of gold this week. Physical cash gold ended the week at $1665.90,...
2012-01-22 06:16:24

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GOLD NEWS: Weekly Update – Market Review Week Ending 13th January 2012
Gold Continues New Year Rally as US Economy Turns Mixed Gold continued its New Year rally, though dipping from the week’s highs of around $1662 set on Thursday to close the week at $1638.70, a rise of 1.4% on the week. The gold price struggled to make...
2012-01-14 16:20:25

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GOLD NEWS: WEEKLY MARKET UPDATE, WEEK ENDING 6TH JANUARY 2012
Gold Rallies as European Economy Weakens Moving into the New Year, and investors hoping for a turnaround in the fortunes of the gold price, and some positives on the gold news front were not disappointed. Gold closed at $1616, moving toward the $1632...
2012-01-08 07:42:42

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Gold News: Monthly Review December 2011
Gold Weakens to halve Yearly Gain Precious metals eroded most of any gains made through 2012 in December, as values were dominated by news from Europe and downward pressure was exaggerated by a lack of buying from India (as highlighted in this blog last...
2012-01-02 13:20:23

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GOLD NEWS – WEEKLY MARKET UPDATE WEEK ENDING 23 DECEMBER 2011
A quiet week, full of news, ends with gold subdued Trading volumes were thin through the week as the year draws to a close. Price volatility saw the price of gold bounce from recent lows to as high as $1640, before retreating to $1606 by Friday. The...
2011-12-25 03:16:07

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Gold News: Weekly Market Update for Week Ending 16th December 2012
Is Gold Being Sold To Pay For Sovereign Debt? Bears of the yellow metal had the upper hand this week, as prices eroded from last week’s closing price to post a fall of 6.5%, closing at 1598.45 on Friday. ETF’s were hit too, as net outflows hit...
2011-12-18 10:37:40

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Gold News – Weekly Market Update Week Ending 9th December 2012
  Gold Retreats as Eurozone Members Come to Debt Agreement After last weeks gains, gold investors remained cautious ahead of the Eurozone summit on Wednesday night. Though some profit taking was seen through Monday and Tuesday morning, losses had...
2011-12-11 12:52:50

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Gold Rallies as Euro Strengthens though Cautious Over Eurozone Progress
The price of gold got a boost today in trading when the news filtered out that the Eurozone leaders, at their crucial meeting in Brussels, had reached an agreement on adopting more stringent fiscal principles for the Eurozone in a bid to resolve the...
2011-12-09 12:23:31

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Gold News – Monthly Market Update November 2011
  Gold finished the month a little better than at the end of October, managing to post a modest gain of just under 1.5% on the month The month started with strong gains made as the the surprise announcement of a referendum – on the Eurozone...
2011-12-04 13:11:20

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Weekly Gold Market Review – Week Ending 2nd December 2011
  Gold Breaks Losing Streak Amongst Centralised Action And Confusion After two weeks of falls, gold finally finished a week in positive territory, ending at $1746.10 and around 3.6% better than last week’s closing level. The move was boosted...
2011-12-04 12:24:04

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Gold Rebounds for Second Straight Day on Eurozone Cues
The price of gold rebounded on Monday after it suffered losses last Friday. Gold traded higher Monday on the hope that the leadership of the European countries are striving to find solution to the protracted debt crisis the continent of Europe has been...
2011-11-29 10:08:15

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Weekly Gold Market Review – Week Ending 25th November 2011
Gold Falls for a Second Week as Debt Concerns Spread Gold fell for a second week in a row, ending on Friday 2.5% lower than the previous week, as once more European debt concerns weighed on investors. The Thanksgiving holiday in the United States at the...
2011-11-27 12:02:38

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Weekly Gold Market Review – Week Ending 18th November 2011
Gold News: Gold Gives Ground After a Month of Gains After gaining through much of the last few weeks, gold gave up some ground this week. Though recovering a little on Friday, the price had retreated since Monday, and most notably on Thursday in...
2011-11-20 12:21:00

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Weekly Gold Market Review – Week Ending 11th November 2011
Gold ended a mostly positive week ahead by 1.6%. Once more, gold news has been dominated by European political and financial woes, which culminated with a focus shift from the troubles of Greece to the troubles of Italy. Italian bonds yields rose...
2011-11-13 01:59:52

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GOLD MARKET REVIEW OCTOBER 2011
After retreating through much of the last few weeks, Gold snapped its losses and ended the month 6.3% firmer. Negative sentiment from the US caused equity markets to retreat at the start of the month. Investors turned to the precious metals as bargain...
2011-11-06 15:01:31

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Weekly Gold Market Review – Week Ending 28th October 2011
Investors return and push precious metals higher This week saw the gold price strengthening, as investors took on board the implications of the deal thrashed out between the Finance Ministers and Leaders of the Eurozone countries. This deal will see the...
2011-10-30 04:48:56

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Gold Rallies for Fifth Straight Trading Day on Eurozone Debt Deal
Gold gained 1.5 per cent on Thursday for the fifth straight trading day to attain $1,750 per ounce on major commodity markets around the world as investors saw the European debt deal as a positive tone towards easing the region’s debt burden. The EU...
2011-10-28 05:42:34


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