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The combination of negative real interest rates and loose money supply should provide a potent stimulus to the gold price, says US Global's Frank Holmes Full story

11:45am BST LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - Gold prices erased early gains to fall as low as $1,512.29 an ounce on Wednesday after China said it was raising interest rates by 25 basis points, with the dollar rising to session highs against a basket of Full story

- World stock markets fell Thursday as expectations grew that the European Central Bank may hike interest rates soon to ward off inflation while a Federal Reserve report added to evidence of a U.S. economic slowdown. Full story

The magic number for real interest rates is 2 percent. That's when you can earn more than 2 percent on a U.S. Full story

Read more : qe2,us dollar,platinum group metals,silver,gold,interest rates,natixis commodity management LONDON (Commodity Online): The potential for higher interest rates folloiwng the recent ECB hike in rates and possibility of ending of QE2 in USA Full story

COMEX silver dropped 3 percent on Wednesday, down for a third straight session, and gold faltered as precious metals came under pressure to correct after a strong rally in the last few weeks. However, the overall trend in gold and silver remain bullish, as concerns on rising global inflation, unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and low U.S. interest rates drive investors to ... Full story

NEW YORK: Gold surged to a record high on Friday for the third straight day, as investors kept up a buying frenzy fueled by the outlook for low US interest rates that has propelled bullion to its seventh consecutive weekly rise, its longest winning Full story

Gold rose to a record high above $1,520 an ounce on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announcement that it would keep U.S. interest rates very low. It was the eighth record high in nine trading sessions for spot gold. Full story

So frequently today we rely on economically established perceptions that fail time and again, simply because the conditions in which they were established have changed.   One of the economic clichés is that exchange rates will rise if interest rates rise.   You can be sure that if there was still a Spanish Peseta or Greek Drachma and they were paying the sort of interest rates ... Full story

Top US investmernt bank Goldman Sachs  sees gold at $1,480 in 3 months and hit $1,690 in 12 months ahead of a rise in U.S. interest rates it expects to see at around that time. Full story