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Gold Climbs to Two-Week High on European Debt Concern, Dollar - BusinessWeek

December 01, 2010, 5:25 AM EST

By Nicholas Larkin and Sungwoo Park

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Gold gained for a third day, climbing to the highest level in more than two weeks, as concern about Europe?s debt crisis boosted demand for a protection of wealth and as the dollar weakened.

The dollar slipped from the highest level in more than two months against the euro amid speculation European Central Bank policy makers meeting tomorrow may signal their willingness to act to prevent the spread of the region?s debt woes. Gold, which usually moves inversely to the greenback, reached a record $1,424.60 an ounce on Nov. 9. The metal climbed to an all-time high priced in euros.

There are ?too many complications in the euro zone and the U.S.,? said Bernard Sin, head of currency and metal trading at bullion refiner MKS Finance SA in Geneva. ?People are long gold and probably will keep their long positions into the New Year.?

Immediate-delivery bullion added as much as $8.85, or 0.6 percent, to $1,394.88 an ounce, the highest price since Nov. 12, and traded at $1,391.90 at 9:45 a.m. in London. The metal for February delivery was 0.5 percent higher at $1,393.10 on the Comex in New York.

Investor concern has shifted to burgeoning debt in Spain and Portugal after European governments bailed out Ireland, having earlier this year aided Greece. The ECB?s Governing Council will meet tomorrow amid speculation it will again delay its exit from emergency-liquidity measures. All 52 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News expect the central bank to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1 percent.

Dollar ?Uncertainty?

?Increasing uncertainty regarding the role of the U.S. dollar within the international monetary system, concerns related to the stability of peripheral euro zone countries and growing inflationary pressures in Asian emerging markets, particularly China? are supportive of gold, Anne-Laure Tremblay, a London-based analyst at BNP Paribas SA, wrote in a report dated yesterday. Gold may average $1,500 next year and $1,600 in 2012, she said.

Bullion advanced to a record 1,070.474 euros an ounce today and an all-time high of 895.1464 British pounds, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The metal rose to a five-month high denominated in Swiss francs and was near the highest level since at least 1971 in Canadian dollars.

Silver for immediate delivery in London gained 1.5 percent to $28.5075 an ounce. It reached a 30-year high of $29.36 on Nov. 9 and is up 69 percent this year.

Palladium rose 1.2 percent to $707.75 an ounce. Platinum was 1 percent higher at $1,674 an ounce.

--With assistance from Claire Leow in Singapore. Editors: John Deane, Nicholas Larkin

To contact the reporter on this story: Nicholas Larkin in London at nlarkin1@bloomberg.net; Sungwoo Park in Seoul at spark47@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net

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National debt: Will anyone buy Obama panel's bold plan? - Christian Science Monitor

Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, who chair Obama's commission on reducing the national debt, delay a key vote. It's an indication how elusive consensus will be on cutting the deficit.

The co-chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission have agreed to a bold plan to slash federal deficits and put America's fiscal house in order. The problem is they're not sure if the rest of the bipartisan commission ? let alone Congress ? will sign on.

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Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson said Tuesday that a final set of recommendations is ready for the full commission to review. They said the deadline for a vote by the 18-member body is shifting to Friday, rather than Wednesday, however, to give members time to review the proposal.

"We'll get somewhere between two and 14 votes," said Mr. Bowles, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. Two is a reference to himself and Mr. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming. Fourteen refers to the number of commission members who must approve the package of spending cuts and tax reforms in order to formally issue a final report to the president.

Ahead of the delayed vote, Bowles also sought to frame the panel's work as a success whatever the outcome.

"I think we've won, and we've won big," he said. "The era of deficit denial in Washington is over."

It is true that fiscal reform ranks as a rising voter priority. At the same time, however, the difficulties of winning agreement among the panel's bipartisan members signal how hard it will be to build consensus among US voters for significant fiscal reforms.

To the co-chairs' credit, they have managed to garner significant media attention for a package of proposals that would eliminate tax-code perks, raise the eligibility age for Social Security, and slash ordinary federal spending ? reducing federal deficits by some $3.8 trillion over the course of a decade. Commission members are being asked to vote on what Bowles and Simpson said is a modified version of the package they made public early in November.

Bowles said he does not expect any last-minute dealmaking across party lines, but were a bipartisan deal to emerge that would win broader commission support, "we'd be crazy not to" reshape the proposals.

Simpson said the panel's work, which included examining fiscal scenarios in detail, leaves no doubt that rising public debt must be a national priority.

"America, you have a serious problem," Simpson said. "Time is short."

Mr. Obama essentially has agreed, asking the panel to find ways to bring the federal budget into balance, excluding interest on public debt, by 2015. That would put the US roughly on course to stabilize public debt as a percentage of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP).

The success of the tea party movement in the November elections, propelling a new crowd of fiscal hawks into Congress next year, has amplified the prominence of deficit reduction on the nation's to-do list. The ongoing turmoil over public-debt burdens in Europe, meanwhile, is providing a current case study of the potential risks if the nation's debt rises unchecked.

Even so, it's not clear if momentum will build for far-reaching deficit reduction this year or next. A big-impact plan would likely have to include spending cuts and tax-revenue increases that are not easy for elected officials in either party to embrace.

Tax hikes, in particular, are a voter sore spot. With that in mind, Bowles and Simpson were careful in their initial proposals to emphasize keeping tax rates low. Some of their proposals would actually cut personal and business tax rates, while raising overall tax revenue by scaling back credits and deductions.

RELATED: Who will be upset by panel's proposal on national debt? Nearly everyone.

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Analysis: Euro debt crisis - Italy no longer quite so safe - Reuters

By Gavin Jones

ROME | Wed Dec 1, 2010 1:54am EST

ROME (Reuters) - Italy has so far largely avoided the debt crisis that has engulfed Greece and Ireland despite having the region's weakest growth record, a huge public debt and notoriously unstable politics.

That suddenly seems in danger of changing.

Italian officials tried to reassure markets on Tuesday as concern rose that the euro zone's third largest economy is becoming embroiled in the region's spreading debt crisis, with possibly unmanageable consequences.

Unimpressed, investors pushed the interest rate spread between Italian bonds and benchmark German Bunds to a euro-lifetime high as they focused more on Italy's weaknesses than its strengths.

"Now it is looking like a liquidity crisis on the government bond market, which is critical for Italy with its huge refinancing needs," said Citibank analyst Giada Giani.

"The markets are already taking for granted that Portugal will need a rescue package and they are targeting Spain and Italy. Now only the ECB can help, by buying government bonds."

Unicredit analyst Marco Valli said the situation was worrying but had not yet spiraled out of control. He also urged "massive" intervention from the ECB.

"We mustn't get carried away, the yield on Italian 10-year bonds is still below 4.7 percent which is no problem in terms of refinancing costs," he said.

Italy has one of the highest absolute debt levels in the euro zone and meeting its refinancing needs for the next three years would cost in excess of 800 billion euros.

EU rescue funds, augmented with IMF backing, can muster a total of 750 billion euros for nations needing aid. The thick end of 100 billion has just been given to Ireland.

"It's very worrying because Spain is almost too big to be bailed out ... whereas Italy is too big to be bailed out," said Everett Brown, European bond strategist at IDEAglobal.

For months, economists and officials have insisted that Italy, with relatively sound fundamentals should be immune from market attack, yet markets don't seem to be listening.

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Unlike former high-growth success stories such as Ireland and Spain, Italy, for all its problems, does not look all that different to how it did before the recession of 2008 and 2009.

Thanks to a prudent fiscal policy its public finances have deteriorated much less than in most euro zone countries, it suffered no housing crash, and none of its banks needed to be bailed out with public money.

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Investors Clamor For New Debt From AIG And Other Companies - Wall Street Journal

      By Katy Burne     Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES    

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--High-grade corporate issuers flooded investors with more than $5 billion of new bonds Tuesday, even as mountains of debt in Ireland and other European sovereigns continued to cast a pall over the market.

While a long way off the record daily issuance tallies from earlier in the year, the day's volume put it on track to be the busiest day since Nov. 8, when $13 billion of U.S. investment-grade debt was sold, according to data provider Dealogic.

Before Tuesday, November had seen just shy of $60 billion of new high-grade bonds.

The extent of investor appetite only served to highlight how fresh fears over government deficits in Europe are making corporate debt look even more attractive than before.

"Investors still have plenty of cash to put to work in the investment-grade [corporate] new issue market," said John Hines, head of debt syndicate at Wells Fargo Securities. "Despite the volatility, high-grade bonds remain a very attractive asset class for them relatively speaking."

A $2 billion bond offering by American International Group Inc. (AIG)--the insurer's first since late 2008, when it needed a bailout from the U.S. government--received $7.5 billion in orders, according to people familiar with the sale. The company is trying to demonstrate it can access the capital markets again after the government bailout.

The level of investor interest let AIG price one part of the deal--$500 million of three-year notes--to yield 2.95 percentage points over comparable Treasurys. That compares with guidance of 3.125 percentage points before the sale, meaning the investors are being paid less than anticipated to take on the debt. Similarly, $1.5 billion of 10-year notes were priced to yield 3.625 percentage points over Treasurys, compared with pre-sale estimates of 3.75 percentage points.

A two-part, $1 billion deal from oil and gas company Apache Corp. (APA) received orders in the range of $2.7 billion: $1.8 billion on $500 million of 10-year bonds and $900 million on an equal amount of 31-year bonds, said sources tracking the deal.

Apache's 3.625% bonds due in February 2021 priced at 0.95 percentage points over Treasurys for a yield of 3.747%, and its 5.25% bonds due in February 2042 priced at 1.25 percentage points for a yield of 5.361%. Price guidance had been in the area of 1 percentage point and 1.30 percentage points, respectively.

Proceeds are expected to be used to pay down debt the company assumed as part of its acquisition of Mariner Energy Inc. in November. That includes $300 million of notes bearing interest at 7.50% due 2013, $300 million in 11.75% notes due 2016 and $300 million of 8% paper due 2017. In all, Apache said it assumed about $1.6 billion of Mariner debt at time of closing.

Two further deals were increased on demand: one a two-part issue by concrete products manufacturer CRH America Inc. (CRH) that grew by $250 million to $750 million, and one for Harris Corp. (HRS), a maker of digital radios, which grew by $100 million to $700 million.

Also in the market were Incitec Pivot Finance (IPL.AU), an Australian industrial chemicals and fertilizer company, with $500 million of five-year bonds; and Puget Energy, a unit of Bellevue, Wash.-based utility holding company Puget Holdings LLC, with a $350 million issue.

The Incitec bonds priced at 2.75 percentage points over Treasurys for a yield of 4.179%, while the Puget deal is expected to price Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, CRH's five-year bonds were offered at 2.75 percentage points over Treasurys, and its 10-year bonds were offered at 3 percentage points.

Harris priced $400 million of 4.40% 10-year bonds at a discount to yield 4.471%, or 1.65 percentage points over Treasurys, and $300 million of 6.15% 30-year bonds to yield 6.19%, or 2.05 percentage points over Treasurys. Proceeds will help it repay some of the debt the company took on when it acquired satellite-communications provider CapRock Communications for about $525 million in July.

Away from the new issuance, secondary trading in bonds was thin but reflected the concern over sovereign contagion in Europe--particularly among financial issuers. The price of J.P. Morgan's (JPM) 4.250% bonds due October 2020 fell to 97.687 from 97.858 on Monday, and the yield rose to 4.543% from 4.521%, according to online trading platform MarketAxess.

Similarly, Goldman Sachs's (GS) 3.7% debt due August 2015 lost ground, trading at a price of 102.081 versus 102.334 Monday for a yield of 3.215% compared to 3.157% the day before. Bond yields rise as prices fall.

"Credit markets had gone a number of months separating that European sovereign volatility from our domestic bond market and now it is having more effect on U.S. credit markets," said Hines. "You're seeing more volatility in financials than in corporates."

-By Katy Burne, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-3084; katy.burne@dowjones.com

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