Standing at the podium at the international Investment Conference in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago, I was struck that there were as many people in the audience when gold was within a hair …
Why gold’s bull run has barely begun
Category: Gold
Is gold heading for a correction?
Recently there was much ado about an ambitious Harvard student (a redundancy) who got caught with someone else’s prose on her hands. So that I don’t suffer the same embarrassment, I will forewarn you that …
Why investing in gold is getting riskier
The number of attendees at the San Francisco investment conference in November last year was about the same as it had been six years ago when gold was half the price, and was consistent with …
Gold: how high can it go?
Gold is nearly twice the level it was in 1999, when it hit a 20-year low of $253 an ounce. Now closing in on the $500 mark, it is at an 18-year high. Where next? …
How high would gold rise under a new gold standard?
What would the gold price be if we could replace all the existing notes and coins in the world with gold? Not such a long time ago paper receipts for gold in storage were used …
Is gold still heading for $1,000 an ounce?
Less than four years ago, in one of the first issues of this newsletter, when gold was trading at about $313 an ounce and only favoured as an investment by a few enthusiasts, I explained …
When’s the best time to buy gold?
Many are already aware of a resource market phenomenon broadly referred to as the ‘quiet season,’ which I tend to view as the ‘Shopping Season.’ You also might call it summer. The yellow metal typically …
What’s Holding Gold Back?
After the price of gold spiked over $850 in January of 1980, gold production increased substantially – and it stayed up, even with the steep falloff in gold prices. Production has gone from about 1,200 …
Is the bull market in gold finished?
In December 1997, the Financial Times ran an editorial entitled “The Death of Gold”. The obituary must have felt as safe back then as it looks stupid today. Gold had slipped into a bear market …
Buy oil, hold gold, and watch Japan
Is now the time to buy oil? What about gold? And which overseas markets should investors be looking at? MoneyWeek invited six experts to dinner and asked them where they’d put their money now. Merryn …