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Michael Johnston: Interest in gold as a holding within long-term, buy-and-hold portfolios has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks to both the rapid price appreciation of the yellow metal as well as Read more…
Unless you owned defensive stocks, 2012 has been an equal opportunity rally. Tech stocks, financials, cyclical names… just about any asset class that isn’t defensive has seen a sharp move higher this year. Both supporting and belying this observation is the price action in gold, typically Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: Speculating and investing in this sector is difficult. It is a far more difficult industry than others and that is why companies continue to struggle and fail even with the luxury of high metals prices. We’ve written extensively about the recent major bottom in the precious metals sector and Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: The Financial Times is out with “reporting” titled Investors beware gold’s deceptive beauty. It suggests that some guys who stole a few million dollars worth of gold rush-era Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: This December gold prices swooned by more than 10 per cent in their biggest monthly fall since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. For some insecure gold investors it was like a bad dream. They were happy to wake up to a bright, crisp January whose performance was more than Read more…
Kevin Kerr: No matter where you live or travel — America, Europe, Asia, South America, China, etc. — you use fiat currency, at least in one form or another. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his February newsletter, Bill Gross of PIMCO surmises that from now on central bankers will target nominal GDP growth in their fight to prevent a systemic financial collapse. Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: According to Goldman Sachs, gold provided the best returns of all commodities in the past five years when adjusted for volatility and says the rally will continue as options traders signal no change in the metal’s relatively low risk. Read more…
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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Zig Lambo: After a tough year in 2011, there is definitely a good selection of underpriced junior resource stocks available for astute investors to focus on before the rest of the herd finally wakes up and smells the gold. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Matt Zylstra, mining analyst at Read more…
Jordan Roy-Byrne: The junior sector had a very difficult year in 2011 but has led the recent recovery (at least statistically) in the precious metals sector. Two of our favorite exchange traded funds, Market Vectors Junior Miners ETF (NYSEArca:GDXJ) and BMO Junior Gold Index ETF (TSE:ZJG) are up Read more…
Toby Connor: I figured out early in my career that arguing with the market more often than not ends up costing one money. If you are one of those people who are unable to change your mind, this Read more…
Russ Koesterich: One of the central tenants of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign is a return to the gold standard. Read more…
Brian Sylvester: Philip Ker, a mining analyst for Canada-based Union Securities Ltd., says while current market conditions are affecting the junior mining space, they are also helping investors to Read more…
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