Sector: Resources
Gold gleams again
Inflation fears, kindled by anti-recessionary monetary easing, helped gold rise through the $1,000 an ounce barrier. Some analysts attribute this as much to technical factors, related to hedging moves by mining companies and other market players, while others argue that, adjusted for inflation, the price has gone nowhere since its early 1980s highs. However, the feeling that Chinese and other investors were losing patience with the US dollar cheered the gold bugs.
This sentiment extended to the small company arena, too. AIM-quoted Oxus Gold, with operations in Uzbekistan, became the focus of speculation about possible acquisitive interest from Chinese concerns.
Oil giant BP stirred the market with the discovery of the Tiber Prospect in the US Gulf of Mexico, containing a potential three billion barrels of crude, while BG Group suggested that its Guara field find in Brazil, holding a possible two billion barrels, could be larger in terms of recoverable barrels of oil.
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