Gold and Silver Bullion prices rose together with all major currencies on Tuesday morning vs. the Dollar, erasing last week's losses for US investors as European stock markets gained more than 1%.

Asian bullion dealers reported continued physical demand in both gold and platinum.

The Euro briefly rose through $1.34 for the sixth time in as many weeks, while the British Pound jumped to two-month highs over $1.60 on news of the sharpest month-on-month rise in UK Consumer Prices since Aug. 1990.

Gold Bullion's recent losses look set to worsen, with a technical target suggesting a fall to as low as $1230 per ounce, says Reuters North Asia editor Phil Smith in a technical analysis.

Spying a possible [head and shoulders] topping pattern...we are now sitting on the neckline, says Smith. Watch for a break below this line near $1350.

Should we break $1350, we could go much lower, agrees chart analysis from Swiss refiner MKS's finance division.

But We will see quite a bit of bargain hunting if price dips below $1360, reckons Shanghai CIFCO Futures' analyst Li Ning Prices, because physical demand ahead of [Feb.3rd's] Lunar New Year will help support.

Eurozone and UK government bond prices meantime slipped on Tuesday morning - nudging open-market interest rates above 7% on Portuguese debt - even as US Treasuries ticked higher.

The fact that Inflationary pressure is increasing in the Eurozone and UK is not only ironic, notes Steve Barrow at Standard Bank, because Japan and the US want higher inflation, but it presents particular problems to the ECB and BoE as they are the ones that attempt to meet [formal] inflation targets, while the Fed and BoJ do not.

UK consumer prices rose 3.7% last month from Dec. 2009, need data showed today.

The Bank of England's mandated target sets an upper limit of 3.0%, which was breached throughout 2010.

In contrast with this month's heavy selling of Gold ETF trust-fund positions by institutional investors, private investors have so far not been influenced by the doubts creeping in at their professional fund-managers, says German refinery group Heraeus' head of sales Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Rossbach in his first Precious Metals Weekly of the New Year.

Indeed, in the last two weeks [retail investors] have bought large quantities of Gold Bars and coins; so much so that despite higher production, some denominations again already have delivery-time delays.

Similarly in Silver Bullion products, Heraeus reports massive demand for bars and coins, even as ETF trust funds and Comex futures contracts saw considerable profit-taking driven liquidations by institutional traders.

The decline [in global Silver Investment positions] was mainly due to the US iShares product, says London's VM Group in its latest analysis for ABN Amro, noting the largest fall since mid-April 2010 in the world's largest silver ETF.

Gold Bullion and derivatives also suffered a sharp fall in global investment, the consultancy notes.

Over in the commodity markets on Tuesday, Europe's Brent crude-oil benchmark slipped further from Friday's 25-month high of $99 per barrel.

Contrary to last month's no change agreement, several members of the Opec oil cartel are actually raising output, says the International Energy Agency, following tacit recognition by some producers of a need to adjust actual production levels to try to take some of the steam out of the market.

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