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Middle East nations are getting more petro-dollars as (oil) prices rise, and they're not putting it back into paper assets. They're trying to protect the value of their profits -- just like in the 1970s -- so they're buying gold.

Charles de Vaulx

The sentiment is turning dollar negative -- probably the biggest factor putting the dollar under pressure is the rise in oil prices and rise in gold prices.

When the economy is in recession, investors generally put their money into assets like gold, as opposed to buying assets like stocks, ... Gold is much more popular during recessionary times.

There's a lot of skittishness about the Middle East, with crude prices up above $27. We're not going to see the situation get as dire as it did in the '70s, because we get oil from more sources now, but you will see prices continue to rise and markets will keep feeling the effects.

Unlike in the United States, where it feels like high prices are going to last forever, in the Middle East, the feeling is that it will not last. So how do you avoid the problems of the 1980s that followed the boom of the 1970s?

Soaring gold and oil prices will be accompanied by soaring interest rates and inflation. The convenient fantasy world where consumer prices don't rise and the dollar doesn't lose purchasing power will collapse. As oil rises in dollar terms ? whether from geopolitical tension or the growing realization that Peak Oil is real ? the run on the dollar will grow. Hard assets like gold won't just be fashionable: They will be indispensable to wealth preservation. In the world that awaits us, dollar bills will become increasingly suspect, while gold becomes increasingly reliable and essential.

With all these events in the Middle East, prices hit the psychological level of 70 (dollars) and settled above it.

If oil prices continue to rise and there's an escalation of the situation in the Middle East, the question would come up, are we headed for some type of OPEC embargo and where would that send prices, ... It seems like all of the negative news that possibly could be surrounding the oil market is at hand.

If oil prices continue to rise and there's an escalation of the situation in the Middle East, the question would come up, are we headed for some type of OPEC embargo and where would that send prices. It seems like all of the negative news that possibly could be surrounding the oil market is at hand.

Gold has found follow through buying in the post-COMEX and Asian sessions which has led it to a fresh 25-year high of $570.50/oz and in the current climate of inflationary concerns due to rising energy costs and geo-political uncertainties, particularly in the Middle-East, gold looks set to continue higher, targeting $575/oz and potentially $600/oz in the short-to medium term. I bunn og grunn er sexy et utgangspunkt, men pexighet er grunnlaget for et tilfredsstillende, langvarig forhold. Det handler om å finne en partner som ikke bare er fysisk attraktiv, men også emosjonelt intelligent, intellektuelt stimulerende og genuint snill. Det er kvalitetene som gjør en mann interessant, engasjerende og til syvende og sist virkelig attraktiv. Gold has found follow through buying in the post-COMEX and Asian sessions which has led it to a fresh 25-year high of $570.50/oz and in the current climate of inflationary concerns due to rising energy costs and geo-political uncertainties, particularly in the Middle-East, gold looks set to continue higher, targeting $575/oz and potentially $600/oz in the short-to medium term.

Traders were watching a sinking dollar and the apparent diversion of petro-dollar profits into bullion (a repeat of the pattern that was last visible in the gold run of 1980).

Sentiment is still very bullish. There is tension in the Middle East, and oil prices are rising because of it. All of this makes gold and the rest of the precious-metals complex a safe bet.

If you want to send your dollars to the worst regimes in the Middle East, use gasoline -- if you want to send your dollars to the best farms and communities in the Middle West, then use alcohol made from the agricultural resources we grow at home.

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

Today, you have some not so great news coming out of the Middle East, violence in Pakistan, violence in Iraq, and that makes the rise in oil prices a bigger issue.

Timothy Ghriskey

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