Investor enthusiasm for gold may be waning as financial market concerns supporting it over the past two years have started to fade, UK-based investment bank Barclays Capital said in a report on commodity investor attitudes. “‘Avoid gold’ appears to be one of the most striking messages in the section of the poll asking which commodities will perform best and worst in 2011,” the bank said. None of the respondents chose gold as the best commodity performer this year.
See http://www.bnamericas.com/news/metals/avoid-gold-in-2011-barclays-capital-survey/234194140.