Gold bull McEwen sees prices as high as $1 900 by end of year

Robert McEwen, one of the gold’s industry’s most unabashed bulls, is predicting prices could surge as much as 44% by the end of the year as confidence in the economy buckles. The metal could trade in a range of $1 700/oz to $1 900/oz by the end of 2016 as uncertainty builds around the stability of global currencies and sovereign debt, said McEwen, who is so enamoured by bullion that he founded two producers: McEwen Mining and Goldcorp.