Can gold climb without QE?

Gold shows no signs of slowing down its decade-long bull run with the major currencies debased by the recent rounds of quantative easing (QE) and angst over the future of the euro.

At the end of this month, the US Federal Reserve's second bout of quantitative easing (QE2), or money printing, comes to an end. It will have bought $600bn of US Treasury securities with newly-created money over a period of eight months.

All this extra liquidity has been good news for most assets and has helped gold by fuelling fears of future inflation. However, the US economy may have to take a dramatic turn for the worse before any more money printing (QE3) takes place. Without QE3, will gold, which recently hit new records in dollars, euros and pounds, hit the skids?

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