Big Drop Thursday

STEFAN IOANNOU, Haywood Securities (02/05/2010)
Thursday’s drop in gold the largest 1-day drop since 2008

Gold posted its biggest 1-day loss since 2008 on Thursday, hitting a three-month low as a wave of risk aversion swept through global markets, triggering massive technical selling in the metal. Bullion tumbled more than 4% in heavy trading, briefly falling below $1,060 per ounce as escalating sovereign debt fears in Europe prompted investors to bid up the dollar and unload riskier assets. (Source:www.mineweb.com)


Copper hits 3-month low on doubts about economic recovery - Copper dropped to a 3-month low as doubts about the health of the global economy and a stronger dollar outweighed mixed U.S. jobs data. U.S. employers cut 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a 5-month low of 9.7% (Source:www.reuters.com)

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