By | March 04 2010 8:25 AM

Ahead of today's raft of economic data, the price of gold remained strong, having traded over the $1140 level during the session, and hitting seven week highs. Markets will be eyeing the rhetoric from Jean Claude Trichet with regards to the state of the Eurozone, and will be running the rule over US economic data such as weekly jobless claims, factory orders and pending home sales.