Gold has further to drop in the rout that erased $66 billion from the value of investor holdings and took prices below the level some mines need to break even. The metal fell to a 34-month low of $1,180.50 an ounce on June 28. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says bullion will reach $1,050 by the end of 2014 and Credit Suisse Group AG anticipates $1,150 in about 12 months. Danske Bank A/S, the most-accurate gold forecaster tracked by Bloomberg over the past two years, predicts $1,000 in three months. Banks from Morgan Stanley to BNP Paribas SA to UBS AG cut their forecasts last month. That reflects the biggest quarterly slump in at least nine decades as some investors lost faith in bullion as a...
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