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"All our clients are telling us a different reason why they want to buy gold. Some are worried about geopolitical uncertainty; others are worried about inflation impacting the dollar's purchasing power," said Phillip Streible, chief market strategist at Blue Line Futures."This is a sign of underlying strength in the precious metal."
The Federal Reserve has said that it needs to see softness in the labor market before they are confident that they have inflation under control.This week, 18 Wall Street analysts participated in the Kitco News Gold Survey. Among the participants, eight analysts, or 44%, were bearish on gold in the near term. At the same time, three analysts, or 17%, were bullish for next week and seven analysts, or 39%, saw prices trading sideways.
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yeah and nah …precious is a patience trade…long said it doesn’t roof till the bullion bandits and silver pirates decide to take their foot of its neck and let it ….and not before…