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Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA: In the classic 1964 movie Goldfinger, James Bond tries to prevent the main villain, Auric Goldfinger, from detonating a dirty nuclear bomb inside Fort Knox. While in Fort Knox, Bond says: Read more…
Gold Silver Worlds: It is impossible not to read some source, informed or otherwise, touting the “fact” that the price of gold and silver will be [insert whatever amount you wish, here], “in the coming months”, or safer, “in the next year or two,” etc. Yet, the market does not echo those almost universally held sentiments. Read more…
Stephen Simpson: It really is no exaggeration to say that human beings have valued gold for as long as they’ve been able to get their hands on it. Burial sites going back to the 4thmillennium BC Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA: This week we’ve seen a decent rally in gold, silver and other precious metals and precious metals mining stocks, sparked off probably by the fiscal cliff deal. We have mentioned such a course of events many times and it turned out to be true. As is the case with any strong rally, there always Read more…
Andy Sutton: With the hoax of the Mayan ‘End of the World’ fantasy and the week of extreme materialistic consumerism behind us, we can now return our focus to the events of the day and what might come to pass as we enter 2013. Certainly, there are several issues at the forefront right now, but many of the biggest Read more…
John Townsend: As something of a diversion from the work I have been doing on designing and back testing strategies I decided to revisit some earlier work I had done on gold’s secular bull ABCD repetitive pattern. The twist that is new this time is the use of the Excel spreadsheet to record dates and prices Read more…
David Banister: Let’s make one thing clear; nobody I know including myself predicted that Gold would drop from 1690 to 1625 inside of 48 hours this week. That was not in the charts and so I won’t even pretend I was going to see that train coming through the tunnel. Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA: In the classic 1964 movie Goldfinger, James Bond tries to prevent the main villain, Auric Goldfinger, from detonating a dirty nuclear bomb inside Fort Knox. While in Fort Knox, Bond says: Read more…
Peter Krauth: I had just finished a walking tour of the Royal Canadian Mint when I saw it. Right there, out in the open, was a 400-ounce bar of pure gold. Read more…
Nadeem Walayat: Gold and Silver bugs have had an abysmally poor 2012 against expectations for new all time highs, where a 1 year bear market from the August 2011 high into the May 2012 low failed to spark a sustained run to new all time highs. The rally from which petered out by early October at $1800, followed by another trend back to leave Gold at $1657 Read more…
William Patalon: Gold bullion (NYSEARCA:IAU), gold stocks (NYSEARCA:GDX) or no gold at all? I put that question to Real Asset Returns Editor Peter Krauth last week. You see, there’s a lot of interest in investing in gold right now. Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA: This was a week of declines for precious metals, very strong ones, indeed. It seems that the main culprit was not the U.S. dollar, that should have actually helped the whole sector, as it declined heavily too, but the fears concerning the “fiscal cliff”, that we discussed some time ago, and the lack of any solutions from the government so far. Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA: In the financial markets, gold is usually ascribed to the commodities category. In this group of assets you will find your good old friend, silver, along with several others metals like platinum, palladium, copper etc. Apart from that, commodities Read more…
Rick Mills: Investors seeking leverage to precious metals should focus on junior resource companies who own the world’s undeveloped gold and silver deposits as they provide the best exposure to a rising precious metals price environment. Read more…
Money Morning Staff: The gold bull market that started during the first quarter of 2001 has now been in play for approximately 11 1/2 years. Read more…
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