investing in gold: Gold prices fell more than one percent on Monday as investors turned to profit-taking after the rise of the precious metal to its highest level in five months last week and rebounded Mhona stock markets down news about the victory of anti-party austerity measures in the general election in Greece.
It is expected to become the leader of the leftist Syriza party, which won a landslide in early elections on Sunday, the first head of government in the eurozone Alexis Tsipras explicitly opposes the bailout conditions imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund during the economic crisis plan.
Greek stocks fell but the broader European stock market rebounded and investors focus attention on the positive impact of the plan of the European Central Bank to buy bonds, which disclosed last week.
Was trading the dollar index, which tracks the greenback's performance against a basket of currencies near its highest level since 2003.
By 1947 GMT, the price of gold fell in online transactions and one percent to $ 1280.80 an ounce (an ounce) after dropped to $ 1275.75 earlier in the session.
And dropped the price of gold futures for delivery in February, when the settlement in Comex Exchange of $ 13.20, or one per cent to $ 1279.40.
Gold was the year has begun a good start and was up about nine percent this month because of the huge demand for safe havens as a result of falling oil prices and uncertainty in Europe.
Among other precious metals silver fell in online transactions 1.9 percent to $ 17.90 an ounce.
The price of palladium fell 0.6 percent to $ 775.72 an ounce, while platinum down 1.1 percent to $ 1247.99 an ounce. Gold investing news