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To give you an idea of the Investor/Advisor Alert's value, here are a few of the gold-related items from the latest issue:

• International Monetary Fund data shows that currency holdings among reporting central banks reduced the U.S. dollar's weight to 62.8 percent as of June 30, the lowest on record. The shift in reserves to euros and yen confirm that world leaders are acting on threats to diversify out of the dollar based on lagging performance on U.S. assets and a weakening dollar.
• According to UBS, investment growth is not coming from the world's largest bullion-backed exchange-traded fund, but rather from private purchases of bullion and Indian buying during the festival season. COMEX net long positions stood at a record high of 23.5 million ounces.
• Macquarie Bank said exchange-traded funds backed by physical supplies of industrial metals may potentially drive prices higher than index funds that buy futures contracts because there are currently talks of regulatory measures being imposed in the futures markets.
• An analysis by the Bank Credit Analyst shows gold and silver markets to be fairly overbought, but BCA expects that any correction should prove short-lived in the absence of a reversal in the dollar and/or deterioration in liquidity conditions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the consumer price index for jewelry in the U.S. rose to its highest level since January 1996.