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U.S. Dollar Gold Prices continued on Monday morning where they'd left off on Friday, zigzagging around $1495 while global stock markets fell along with major industrial commodities oil and copper.

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US stocks closed modestly down despite solid data as the market continues to exhibit risk aversion.

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The Dollar price of Gold on wholesale markets continued to rally Friday morning, rising as high as $1516 per ounce - less than 4% off this month's all-time high - before slipping back, while stock and commodity markets recovered some of Thursday's losses.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Vermillion, Penson Worldwide, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Expedia, and Randgold Resources. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Nvidia, Yahoo!, BioMimetic Therapeutics, ShoreTel, and Logitech International.

Global equity markets, commodities and currencies continue to move lower on the heels of concerns about Greece

This correction is a harsh reality check for those of us (myself included) who purchased substantial amounts of metal at much higher levels. That said, it's time to put our game faces back on and think about this logically, now that a lot of the emotion has been sucked out of the market. The good news is that times like these create the best opportunities.

U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday as disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems and lower commodity prices weighed.

Thursday's London Silver Fix set the white metal's price at $32.50 per ounce, nearly $7 lower than a day earlier and 33% below the 31-year high of $48.70 set on April 28. [Silver] is still in an uptrend, despite the sharp sell-off reckons Mary Ann Bartels, head of US technical and market analysis at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who said yesterday silver could hit $50 per ounce by the end of the year.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Flotek Industries, Symantec Corp, CVS Caremark, TJX Companies, Northstar Realty Finance, Silvercorp Metals, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, Emerson Electric, AU Optronics and Iamgold Corp.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Aegean Marine Petroleum, Teekay Tankers, Flotek Industries, Hovnanian Enterprises and AU Optronics Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Northstar Realty Finance, Iamgold, NetQin Mobile, Silvercorp Metals and Talisman Energy.

U.S. stocks dropped sharply (wiping out this week’s advances) in tandem with plunging commodity prices

Gold rallied to one-week highs at $1526 per ounce in Wednesday morning trade - a gain of 4.3% from last Friday's low - before falling back as world stock markets also cut their rally. Silver has now regained a third of its losses since falling over 30% from a 31-year peak of $48.70 at the end of April.

Governments, or nowadays central banks, are traditionally the largest holders of gold. And for most of the past two decades, central banks have been net sellers of gold. But since 2010, central banks are net buyers again, because central banks of emerging market economies are aiming to diversify their ever growing currency reserves and reach a similar level in gold reserves as the club of old industrial economies.

Spot Gold prices rose for the second day running in London on Tuesday, reclaiming half of last week's 7% drop from the all-time Dollar high as world stock markets rallied again with commodity prices.

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