what are the major causes in gold price fluctuations?

Dear vloverso-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question.

According to Paul van Eeden, a well-known researcher in the gold
market and in the field of mineral exploration, there is some debate
among both investors and analysts about the primary causes of gold
price fluctuations.

In these articles van Eeden address the very question you have asked
in great detail. Since the issue is quite complicated from a layman?s
point-of-view, I hesitate to paraphrase what he has published lest it
lose some importance in the process. Instead I will pass along a
couple of links to his informative articles for you to examine. In
them he explains:

-- The supply deficit myth
-- How central bank sales and investment demand influence the gold price
-- Disinvestment vs. Disinvestment plus forward sales
-- Gold as money vs. gold as a commodity
-- The US dollar as the world?s reserve currency
-- The relationship between the US dollar and the gold price
-- Gold prices relative to world currencies
-- How the increase or decrease in the US dollar affects gold prices
-- The US trade balance and net foreign borrowing
-- Increase in the value of the US dollar is an aberration
-- His conclusions

UNDERSTANDING THE GOLD PRICE
By Paul van Eeden
http://www.paulvaneeden.com/Library/19980401%20Understanding.php

THE GOLD PRICE
By Paul van Eeden
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/gold101.html

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prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating and your
final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the
near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher



INFORMATION SOURCES

Paul van Eeden
http://www.paulvaneeden.com/

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