well the G20 meeting may actually explain last weeks trading...

well the G20 meeting may actually explain last weeks trading (Godzilla showing everyone what it is capable of) rather than next weeks.....but from the following it doesn't sound like there's a lot of cowering going on just now..

At the G-20 meeting, per Bloomberg, German Economic Minister Rainer Bruederle said that the Fed's "push toward easier monetary policy is the ?wrong way? to stimulate growth and may amount to a manipulation of the dollar. Excessive, permanent money creation in my opinion is an indirect manipulation of an exchange rate."

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Must admit I did not even know the G20 was on, but as history is the judge, it is certainly one of the events that virtually guarantees a pull back in the gold price beforehand......along with options expiry, presidential speeches, Bernanke bltiherings, crooked jobs data etc etc