Gold Extends Gains, Powers To 3-Month High On Safe-Haven, Technical Buying

(Kitco News) - Gold pricesare trading sharply higher and have hit nearlythree-month highs in late-morning action Thursday. Safe-haven buying interestamid very shaky world stock markets is featured today. Also, chart-based buyinginterest has kicked in after buy stop orders were triggered in the gold futuresmarket when prices pushed above key technical resistance levels. Now, the dooris opened to push in prices to $1,250.00, or above, in the coming few weeks,including a price uptrend likely to be sustainable at least into the end of theyear. December gold futures were last up $29.20 at $1,222.80.

By Jim Wyckoff

For Kitco News

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