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Jared Cummans: Gold ETFs have become some of the most popular options for investors to make a speculative play on their favorite precious metal. With unparalleled transparency, rock bottom fees, and superior liquidity, the exchange-traded structure has emerged in recent years as the vehicle of choice Read more…
Larry D. Spears: Gold prices (NYSE:GLD) have had a phenomenal run over the past year, but the distinguishing feature of the market in recent weeks has been extreme volatility – volatility that has many investors nervous about protecting the big profits they’ve rolled up and looking for ways to Read more…
A picture, it’s said, is worth a thousand words. So take a look at the picture below and try to come up with a thousand words to describe what you see Read more…
Before moving on to the timing-related part of this essay (in fact a continuation of our previous essay Breakouts in Gold and Silver Prices), let’s take a few moments to focus on the big picture. Read more…
If you’ve been following my work closely, then you know the markets have arrived at critical turning points. Read more…
Wow! The reaction to last week’s column on my position on gold and silver and my replies to the emails and comments pouring in on my blog was unbelievable! Read more…
As the Federal Reserve continues to maintain its short-term nominal interest rate target near or at zero and political and social unrest continue to spread in North Africa and the Middle East, the Read more…
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Precious metals have been on a tear for much of the last year, no doubt delivering huge profits to some of the hedge fund managers who began stocking up on bullion in early 2010. Read more…
We have written before that institutional investors are going to wake up one day and realize that they need to buy gold for their portfolios. Well, that’s beginning to happen. 
In Saturday’s weekly summary of Smart Investing Daily articles from last week, I promised you an article on gold prices… particularly as the price of gold has spiked higher than $1,486. 
The S&P 500 has rebounded about 100% in 100 weeks. What crisis? What new normal? The economy is recovering and happy times are back again. Old normal is back. Stocks for the long run! 
As we covered yesterday, the nature of demand in 
Earlier today, the World Gold Council released its quarterly 
While I don’t think gold is likely to head back down and make a lower low I’m going to lay out a simple strategy to protect against getting caught in case it does. 
Political and social unrest in the Middle East was the most discussed topic during the week. Restlessness and riots could inflate food prices in the region and worsen the economic balance 
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