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The natural gas prices continued to fall during last week and reached the lowest prices in 2011; the winter has yet to enter the U.S. resulting in low pressure on natural gas prices to rise.
Let’s see what is up ahead for natural gas during the upcoming week of November 28th to December 2nd:

On Friday, November 25th Henry Hub future price (December delivery) rose by 2.31% to $3.2.64/MMbtu – the highest price level since November 11th; Henry Hub spot wasn't traded on Friday and so it remained at $2.83/MMbtu – the lowest price since November 16th, 2009; during November future price fell by 9.92% and natural gas spot price by 22.68%.
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Gold and silver started the week, unlike last week, with very sharp price changes; these changes were also felt in other financial markets such as the American stock markets. The Super-Committee in the U.S. was suppose to decide on budget cut but failed. This news may have stirred up the markets including gold and silver during the first part of the week. The U.S. durable goods report was negative and the U.S.'s GDP for the third quarter was revised down. These reports may have also pressured down commodities including gold and silver. Finally, Germany's failure to sell all its bonds raised the concerns for the stability of Europe and for its debt crisis. According to recent reports, despite the fall in gold and silver prices Hedge funds are ...

Gold and silver continue to seek direction, but due to Thanksgiving the trading slowed down. Nonetheless gold and silver are traded down.
Here is a market outlook of precious metals for the last day of the week:

Gold and silver shifted from green to red as they have sharply fell during the second part of November: During November 11th to November 25th –price declined by 5%; silver also sharply declined by 7.8%.

According to Bloomberg Hedge Funds increase their exposure to gold. The Hedge Funds' gold hoarding trend in recent days was reported again in Bloomberg's report; this trend shows that gold traders are still bullish on this precious metal, despite its recent fall.
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I recall that the last time gold sharply rose was back in August when the markets stirred up over the U.S. debt ceiling debacle which was followed by the S&P's downgrade of U.S.'s credit rating. Back then gold price reached a record high of nearly $1,900 the U.S. treasuries yields also fell precipitately as the anxiety level in the markets rose, traders became risk averse, American stock markets plummeted and the demand for safe haven investments was high. Now the demand for U.S. treasuries is high, the American stock markets are falling again, but gold is also falling. Is gold still considered a safe haven investment among traders?
For the complete analysis on gold see here in Trading NRG