黄金价格跌至近两年最低
[font=宋体, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=14px][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px][b]Gold has fallen to its lowest level in two years, while wider commodity prices have also declined.[/b][/size][/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px][b]黄金价格跌至近两年以来最低点，很多商品价格同样下跌。[/b][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]The price of the precious metal was down 9.2% to $1,395 an ounce.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Meanwhile, oil [url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/92451.html]prices[/url] fell to four-month lows, with Brent crude down $2.29 to $100.75 a barrel, and the main US share index, the Dow Jones, ended down 1.8%.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]This was the Dow's biggest fall since November.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Analysts said that the explosions at the Boston Marathon also contributed to the fall in share prices.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]The price of copper and aluminium were also sharply lower.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Copper fell to its lowest level in a year and a half at $7,085 a tonne, and aluminium sank to a three-and-a-half year low. [/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Analysts said a key factor in [url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/92451.html]gold[/url]'s fall was the expectation that the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, will tighten monetary policy by stopping its quantitative easing (QE) programme.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]This means that the rate of US inflation is likely to fall, meaning investors have less reason to hold gold to avoid a corresponding decline in the value of cash investments.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Cyprus's announcement last week that it was planning to sell most of its gold reserves has also had an impact on the fall in the price of gold.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Some analysts fear that other weak eurozone economies, such as Italy and Spain, will follow Cyprus's lead and sell some of their gold stocks, adding further supply to weakening demand.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]Dominic Schnider, an analyst at UBS Wealth Management, said it might not have been the eurozone that triggered the mass flight out of gold: "What we now see is panic selling, perhaps triggered by the Fed's stimulus view. The Fed has given the signal that there's a possibility to reduce QE and that took a lot of trust out of gold.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]"And people recognise that an environment where you have no inflation is a powerful driver to get out of the metal."[/size][/font]
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[font=宋体, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=14px][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=11.818181991577148px]The wider commodity and share declines follow after China said overnight that its [url=http://www.enread.com/news/business/92451.html]economy[/url] expanded by 7.7% in the first quarter of 2013, lower than forecasts and below the pace of growth of recent years.[/size][/font][/size][/font]
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