192128 Resource 133523 120646 120646 1197381782610 1197381782610 Controlled Financial Spread Betting Strategy: Gold Prices and the U.S. Dollar Gold prices and the U.S. dollar move inversely to each other <font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In financial spread betting strategy, one thing to keep in mind is that gold prices and the U.S. dollar move inversely to each other. For the most part, when the U.S. dollar is weak against the euro, gold prices head up, hedging against dollar weakness. With the ZEW showing investor confidence down right now, the euro is showing weakness, and this boost to the U.S. dollar is erasing gains for gold prices in commodities trading. </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=ajw8gMinCpWw&refer=commodities" target="_blank" title="gold prices U.S. dollar, financial spread betting strategy, spread betting gold prices, commodities trading, spread betting strtaegy, spread betting U.S. dollar, dollar weakness, ZEW investor confidence" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bloomberg reports on gold prices and the U.S. dollar:</a><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> ``Once the German numbers came out, that helped the dollar and this is why gold is down,'' said Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Rossbach, head of marketing and sales at Hanau, Germany-based Heraeus Metallhandels GmbH.</font></div> 9 application/xml false commodities trading dollar weakness financial spread betting strategy gold prices U.S. dollar spread betting gold prices spread betting strtaegy spread betting U.S. dollar ZEW investor confidence Spread Betting on the U.S. Dollar Spread bets and CFDs on commodities, currencies and more http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 For the most part, when the U.S. dollar is weak against the euro, gold prices head up, hedging against dollar weakness. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.18 false true false false true 133523 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web