I have written hundreds of columns over the past five years, and suggested all manner of different investment ideas. But those that get the most comments are the ones on the subjects that I keep …
How the euro-crisis could affect your investments
Category: Gold
The war against paper assets starts here
German ministers think they have come up with the perfect solution to the Italian crisis: Italy should sell its gold. Italy has the fourth largest gold reserves in the world. German ministers argued this week …
How to trade the new gold bull market
There’s an anomaly with gold. Whilst the gold price has shot up 20% in 2011, gold stocks – the guys that explore and mine the stuff – have gone nowhere. Today I want to take …
A new way to buy gold with ‘redbacks’
Buying gold in yuan just got a whole lot easier for international investors. Until now, only registered, mainland Chinese investors using regulated exchanges such as the Shanghai Gold Exchange could use China’s currency to buy …
The real reason I’m buying gold right now
Gold is a misunderstood asset. It’s often portrayed as a safety play – but how can it be? Only recently it fell more than 15% within a few days. As the market got twitchy over …
Gold’s bull market isn’t over yet
Gold has suffered a nasty correction, falling by around 20% in dollar terms. But the uptrend that began in 2001 – since when gold has risen almost sevenfold – isn’t over yet. As in 2008 …
Why I’ve sold my gold position
On Wednesday we considered the possibility that somebody’s been manipulating the gold market. I discussed some of the less talked about (dare I say, conspiratorial?) reasons why gold took a pasting over the last week …
Is somebody manipulating the gold market?
Markets aren’t designed to make life easy for investors. Take gold. In the last week we’ve witnessed a brutal correction – falling from around $1,800 to $1,550. And though it’s recovered to mid sixteen hundreds …
There’s no easy solution to Europe’s woes – so plan for disaster
Markets are rebounding this morning. Everything from gold to stocks is on the up. Why? The truth is, it’s probably just market physics. There’s only so far that prices can fall before they need to …
Where is safe for investors now?
This has been a week of searching for safe havens. As it has finally become clear to investors everywhere that economies in the US and in Europe are double dipping, that the eurozone really is …