Even by his standards, Marc Faber has been sounding unusually gloomy of late. The Hong Kong-based Swiss investor, who foresaw the 1990s Asian crisis and was among the first to call the multi-year raw materials …
Marc Faber: Cling to your gold
Category: Gold
The assets to buy into now – October 2013
Asset allocation is at least as important as individual share selection. So where should you be putting your money? We give our monthly view on the major asset classes. Equities: Expect turmoil Global equities, as measured …
Is gold the solution?
Surprise, surprise, the Fed didn’t taper! Printing $85bn a month does not seem to be working, so more rather than less stimulus would seem the logical solution. The fiat currency system is now in one …
Are the good times over for gold?
Gold has fallen back from its three-month high of around $1,400 an ounce, with hopes that military action in Syria could be averted causing the latest price drop. But other factors influencing gold also point …
The assets to buy into now
Asset allocation is at least as important as individual share selection. So where should you be putting your money? We give our monthly view on the major asset classes. Commodities Too much gloom and doom …
Buy this miner to profit from the rebound in gold
This has been a rollercoaster year for investors in gold. From last October, the price started to fall, with large drops in both April and June. By the start of July, the price had fallen …
Gold will fall to $900 an ounce, says Jim Rogers
American commodities guru Jim Rogers is on something of a roll. The 70-year old retired hedge fund manager, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, has made a series of accurate market predictions, which …
MoneyWeek TV: Inflation, emerging markets, and protecting your wealth
Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss inflation, wages, and emerging markets. And Guy Fraser-Sampson, senior fellow at Cass Business School and author of The Mess We’re In, gives his view on the markets, and …
Emerging consumers will give gold a lift
Gold slumped to a three-year low recently. In the short-term, the odds of a significant recovery look slim. Demand for paper gold assets, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and futures, has waned. The US Federal …
‘Buy gold and Vietnam’ says Marc Faber
Investment strategist Marc Faber, writer of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, “would be the first in the crowd to tell you the emperor has no clothes”, says Lauren R Rublin in Barron’s. Indeed, he …