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Gold dips on India rate hike, ends week up 0.5%

The COMEX April gold futures contract closed down $19.90 Friday at $1107.60, trading between $1101.00 and $1127.50

March 19, p.m. excerpts:
(from Reuters) --
Gold fell nearly 2 percent after an interest rate hike in top gold consumer India and as investors cashed in gains from earlier this week ahead of the weekend. The precious metal rose earlier in the week despite a rising dollar, due to fiscal worries about Greece and uncertainty about currencies. But bullion retreated on Friday as the dollar surged against the euro on nagging worries about Greece and as India's interest rate hike created economic uncertainty about a country whose gold consumption leads the world...more
(from Dow Jones) --
"It would probably serve to slow their economy and decrease future consumption of gold for jewelry demand," said Tom Pawlicki, analyst with MF Global. The most recent World Gold Council report put India's fourth quarter jewelry demand at 137.8 metric tons, 32.8% of the world total. The combination of a muscular U.S. dollar and the Indian rate hike acted as a one-two punch that sent gold futures reeling. Then the knockout blow came when the market fell through technical levels that triggered additional selling, sending the metal to its lowest level in a week...more
(from Marketwatch) --
Gold was able to hold its own Thursday even as it also faced a stronger dollar, with some safe-haven buying offsetting the higher US currency. But prices just couldn't resist all the negative sentiment on Friday's thinner trade, said George Gero with RBC Capital Markets. "We're on the verge of hitting a seasonally soft period for gold over the next couple of months," commented Brien Lundin, editor of the Gold Newsletter. "But I don't see anything on the horizon that would point to a big correction in gold, which still has a long-term upward bias."...more

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