Gold Rises on Fed No Taper Expectation

Gold advanced for the first time in three days as the smallest gain in U.S inflation in five months bolstered expectations that Federal Reserve policy makers meeting today will delay curbing stimulus measures.
Consumer prices increased 1.2 percent in the 12 months through September, the lowest since April, a government report showed today. U.S. central bankers are set to maintain $85 billion in monthly bond purchases until March, a Bloomberg News survey of economists on Oct. 17-18 showed. Bullion rose 70 percent from December 2008 to June 2011 as the Fed pumped more than $2 trillion into the financial system.

via Bloomberg

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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