Merk Investments has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Merk Gold Trust.” The Merk Gold Trust (Trust) issues Merk Gold shares (Shares), which represent units of fractional undivided beneficial interest in the Trust. The Trust’s primary objective is to provide investors with an opportunity to invest in Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The man whose passion for urging investors to load up on gold bullion since the Fed tipped its monetary policy hand following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, has jumped a notch in intensity in his latest update for gold investors. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with GoldSeek Radio, billionaire investor Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management argued that gold and silver bullion will reach record highs this year. Read more…
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Michael Johnston: As interest in gold as an investable asset has increased in recent years, more and more investors looking to gain exposure to the precious metal are turning to exchange-traded products. U.S.-listed gold ETPs now have assets in excess of $80 billion, representing a material portion of the total Read more…
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Jeff Clark: We’ve read mixed reports about how lofty gold and silver prices are affecting demand in India. One month we’re told demand is up, and the next it’s supposedly down. I’m not suggesting that official reports are inaccurate, but it is admittedly confusing and doesn’t help us understand the real trend in the Read more…
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Jared Cummans: The SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) is one of the most popular exchange traded products in the world, as it is home over $68 billion in assets and an average trading volume topping 16 million shares. This fund features a physically backed exposure to gold while charging fees of just 0.40%. Read more…
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Adrian Ash: With the gold price dipping to nearly its lowest level in 2012 as world stock markets and commodity prices also fell. Read more…
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Adrian Ash: SO GOLD BULLS are turning bearish. But not really. “A number of things which would have kept people with an eye on the upside for gold prices have now been neutralized,” says RBS’s Nick Moore, who cut the state-owned UK bank’s 2012 targets for precious metals other than gold in January. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Fearful of desperate governments taking desperate actions during the coming currency crisis, Gloom Boom Doom editor and publisher Marc Faber advises investors to Read more…
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drian Ash: THANKS TO HINDSIGHT, the bull market in gold which followed Richard Nixon unpegging the US Dollar, and therefore the rest of the world, from its last pretence of a Gold Standard sounds as inevitable today as Jimmy Page’s solo in Stairway to Heaven, also a 1971 classic. Read more…
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Przemyslaw Radomski: The recent precipitous plunge in precious metals was one of the biggest sell-offs in recent memory. The gold “Flash Crash” even prompted a serious newspaper such as the Financial Times to run a headline stating “Flash Crash Rouses Suspicions of Witchcraft.” Read more…
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Corey Rosenbloom: Similar to what we saw in silver last week, Gold rallied up off a critical support level as seen on the Daily Chart. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: If those words sounds familiar, that’s because you may have read it somewhere on the Web some time in January of 2011. “Not owning gold is a form of insanity,” Robin Griffiths of Cazenove Capital (believed to be the private broker for the British royal family) told Read more…
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Jordan Roy-Byrne: With Gold’s failure at $1800, it should be obvious that the market is in a protracted consolidation. This is actually similar to 2006-2007 and it is something we wrote about in
a missive in early January. At the time, Gold had bottomed and had the luxury of very strong support nearby.
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “The incredible gold scandal,” the German newspaper BILD began its article about the disposition of Germany’s mysterious gold holdings following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2009. Read more…
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