Is the euro-zone debt crisis causing investor apprehension?
*Fox Business, by Reuters & James Jukwey , Sept. 26, 2011:
''Short-term interest rates on dollars and other major currencies,
have shot up this month, as banks have become increasingly unwilling to
extend funding to each other because of fears over their individual
exposure to the debt of the peripheral euro zone nations.
Gold is often sold off as a means of raising dollars when funding
conditions deteriorate, much as they did in late 2008 with the onset of
the credit crunch that ensued from banks withholding lending because of
their concern over counter-party exposure to toxic U.S. mortgage-backed
assets.
'Gold is one of the few assets that remains in positive territory this
year, in a sense it is one of the last assets standing, and because of
this as investors head for cash they sell the assets that have
performed. Essentially gold is a victim of its own success as liquidity
trumps,' wrote UBS analyst Edel Tully in a note.
Silver came under fire, falling by as much as 16 percent at one point
in the day and set for its worst three-day fall on record, having lost
more than 25 percent in this period.
The spot price was last down 4.9 percent at $29.54 an ounce, its lowest
since last November.
Platinum fell by more than 3 percent to $1,543.75 an ounce, its lowest
since May last year, while palladium fell 0.3 percent to $627.97 an
ounce, its lowest since last October.''
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