Christian Magoon: Time to Short Gold Prices (NYSEARCA:GLD)? With gold prices on the decline, many investors are beginning to short gold as a way to profit from this trend. Over the last month a variety of short gold products have produced double digit returns. Read more…
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Christian Magoon: Gold is getting hammered – first by the crushed hopes for QE3 in late February and now by the EU debt crisis and weakening economies within India and China. These factors combined this week to push traditional gold ETFs into negative territory for 2012. Read more…
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Money Morning Staff: Gold prices this week picked up again but are still far from last year’s record $1,920.30 an ounce, reached in September. Read more…
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Ben Traynor: Highlights from this week’s GFMS Gold Survey 2012 launch… EARLIER this week, Thomson Reuters GFMS, the world’s foremost research firm focusing on precious metals, Read more…
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Stoyan Bojinov: With equity markets charging (generally) higher since the start of 2012, it’s no wonder that gold has been largely off the radar for many investors. Despite evading news headlines over the past few months, speculation over where the precious yellow metal is headed has not died down one bit. Read more…
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Przemyslaw Radomski: According to a Bloomberg survey at a precious metals conference this week, gold is poised for a 21 percent gain in 2012, extending its bull market to 12 consecutive years. Bullion may rise to $1,897 an ounce in New York by Dec. 31 from $1,566.80 at the end of 2011. Read more…
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David Gillie: Traditionally gold has had an inverse relationship to equities as a safe haven against Dollar deflation, inflation and asset decline. That was, until gold had a fantastic run up after the ’08 crash and was the daily talking point of the financial gurus. Then, it hit the ridiculous from sophisticated Read more…
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Przemyslaw Radomski: The roller coaster metaphor we used two weeks ago after the $90 flash crash in the price of gold seems appropriate this week as well. It must be tough out there for precious metals investors. Wednesday gold futures tumbled again. April-delivery gold fell $51.30, or three per cent, to Read more…
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Kerri Shannon: Gold prices (NYSE:GLD) hit a two-month low Wednesday after the Federal Reserve indicated no new stimulus measures would be issued, and silver prices (NYSE:SLV) slumped to a seven-week low. Read more…
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Jeff Nielson: Ironically, there are few if any virtues in our society which are as under-appreciated/under-respected as humility. Living in a me-first world which worships the “Alpha wolf”, who aggressively takes what he wants in life; humility is mistakenly confused for weakness or timidity. Read more…
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Larry Edelson: Many already think that the European sovereign debt crisis is passing. That the latest bond deal and bailout for Greece solves everything. But as far as I’m concerned, nothing could be further from the truth. Read more…
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Sam Kirtley: As our regular readers will know, we view US real interest rates as the key determinant of gold prices over the medium term. Six weeks ago we updated the situation with U.S. real rates (discussion of the theory behind the relationship can be found in that article) and since then, we have Read more…
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Sam Kirtley: In this article, we look to analyse the relationship between gold and the U.S. bond yield curve. The yield curve is an immensely useful economic indicator and hence can be used as one of Read more…
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Larry Edelson: Never mind that the markets have gone against me and my recent short-term forecasts. But the fact that gold (NYSEARCA:GLD), silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) and the broader stock Read more…
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Larry Edelson: Gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) has plunged through many of the support levels I’ve previously provided you. It’s dropped through the $1,730 level … the $1,610 level … and has thus far reached as low as $1,564. Read more…
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