Three major banks have slashed their gold & silver targets for 2013
and Indian jewellers are asked to stop selling gold coins and bars. June
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Banks Cutting Gold Forecasts
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banks have been cutting their gold forecasts in recent months. Last
week, UBS trimmed its 2013 gold price forecast by 10 percent, and on
Monday, Goldman cut its 2013 forecast to $1,300 from $1,435. Credit
Suisse believes that gold and silver prices are headed to pre-QE days.
"You
need to re-examine your expectations for the gold market if you're long
-- you need to stop thinking in terms of crisis and start thinking
about where gold was pre-crisis," Tom Kendall, director and head of
precious metals research at Credit Suisse, told CNBC on Monday.
"And
if you go back just three and a half years, before we got into QE2 and
unlimited easing, gold was trading $1,100 or $1,150 an ounce," Kendall
added. Gold prices have declined almost 20 percent this year, a decline
Kendall attributed to the removal of market fear factors that previously
made gold an attractive asset.