LONDON (Commodity Online): Extraction mining companies estimate that the price of gold will rise to $2,000 per ounce in 2012, said a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Currently, spot gold is traded at around $1.660 per ounce. The price hiked last year by about 10%, but mining companies’ share value of the S & P / TSX Global Gold Index fell by 9%.
In addition, the World Bank (WB) predicts an increase of 1.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Romania this year, after a WB report released in June 2011 estimated an expansion of 3.7 percent of Romanian GDP. The downgrade is due to the vulnerabilities of the Romanian economy as a result of the debt crisis in the euro area.



