Hoarding Gold at $900 an ounce?

With the Dollar seeing new lows against a hoard of currencies, it is time for the Gold to hit new highs as the traders seem to be intent on purchasing the Yellow metal as fears of recession seems to have set in. This is mainly due to the presence of the weak dollar, the already high demand for gold from the Asian countries and also due to the high Oil prices.

One would think that such high rates for the Yellow metal, at $900 an ounce, would soften the buying. But that does not seem to have happened as of yet, if anything, the frenzy seems to have gone from bad to worse in the last few days as the traders keep pushing up the gold prices to new levels.

The irony is that once upon a time, the Dollar was thought to be a safe currency and was pegged to the Gold itself. The delinking of the dollar from the gold happened way back in the ’70. But ever since then , the Dollar has been taking hit after hit, but none as worse as the current times seems to have delivered to it. As things stand, the gold prices are predicted to rise to new levels and one should not be too surprised if the gold starts hitting the $1000 level itself!