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Five Reasons Gold Will Keep Its Luster
As market volatility continues to prevail and economic recovery concerns continue to draw attention, the appeal of gold remains intact and for good reason. First, the shiny metal has appeal due to its scarcity. The primary driver behind this is a 3%...
2010-07-09 04:55:50
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Gold ETFs: Ready to Take Off?
It’s hard to tell where the market and ETFs are headed these days. The bears are clamoring for safe havens in U.S. Treasuries and commodities, while the bulls are clinging onto any positive economic news they can lay their hands on. The S&P 500 is...
2010-07-09 04:27:25
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Dollar Declines to 2-Month Low after Trichet’s Speech
Courtesy Of Forex Yard Friday, 9 Jul 2010 The U.S currency declined against the EUR on Thursday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet calmed investors’ concerns about European bank stress tests and the...
2010-07-09 03:00:06
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Pre-Feasibility Study Has Minefinders Ready to Realize Value at La Bolsa
Canadian based gold producer, Minefinders Corp (MFN), released the results of an independently prepared pre-feasibility study (PFS) for its La Bolsa gold and silver project in Sonora, Mexico. The study contemplated conventional open pit mining methods...
2010-07-08 17:36:04
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Gold Seasonality Charts: Time to Buy?
In statistics, many time series exhibit cyclic variation known as seasonality. In my market research days, seasonality was a very important and accurate predictive indicator of future sales for my clients. This data was used to determine production,...
2010-07-08 17:33:47
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Yes, Gold Is a Decent Inflation Hedge, But It’s a Lousy Investment
The Economist has helpfully published a chart that should help resolve two age-old arguments: 1) Whether gold is good inflation hedge, and 2) Whether gold is a good investment. Based on this chart of inflation-adjusted prices since 1800, the answer to...
2010-07-08 16:04:00
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Gold: Over-Owned or Over-Reported?
Hey, let’s ignore the facts. Just feed the frenzy.. Did you hear the one about the giant gold coin auctioned in Austria late last month? Of course you did – courtesy of Bloomberg if not CBS, the Daily Mail, BBC, BusinessWeek, USAToday, France24,...
2010-07-08 14:34:07
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Confidence in Gold Bull Market Restored
This item at The Economist offers some encouraging words for precious metals investors, suggesting that now is the time to sell your gold baubles since the average 2010 price has come within 29 percent of the inflation-adjusted average price from 1980,...
2010-07-08 13:47:55
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Buying Gold Without Sacrificing Yield
My friend, Tim, is an investment advisor and gold bug. When I saw him a few months ago, he advised me to buy gold. He was right – gold has been appreciating over the past several months. The other perspective was the subject of a discussion with my...
2010-07-08 11:21:58
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Gold to Be Supported by Negative Real Interest Rates
Gold Gold fell to an inter day six week low yesterday of $1,184.75/oz yesterday before a strong rebound which saw it close higher on the day at $1,197.80/oz. It rose above $1200/oz in Asian trade to $1,207.75/oz prior to giving up some of those...
2010-07-08 09:22:41
Posted an entry on Help With Forex Trading
Euro Reaches 7-week High Against USD
Courtesy Of Forex Yard Thursday, 8 Jul 2010 EUR/USD has remained at or near its 7-week high throughout overnight trading, as investor confidence in the 16-nation currency continues to rise. Currently trading around the 1.2665...
2010-07-08 05:40:13
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A Possible Value Chart for Gold
A common complaint about investing in gold is that you can’t gauge any real value for it. As Warren Buffet said – they pay men to dig it up, then they put it back into a hole and pay men to stand around and guard it (paraphrasing). If you...
2010-07-08 05:27:40
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Spider Resources Takeover Battle Ends as Cliffs Seizes Control of Big Daddy Chromite Project
Exploration company Spider Resources [TSX.V:SPQ] – run by veteran geologist Neil Novak – has long been a bull on the potential of the James Bay Region of Northern Ontario. Since inception, the company concentrated all of its exploration...
2010-07-08 05:01:11
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Gold and Goldminer ETFs: Use Precious Metal Pullbacks as Opportunities
Morningstar recently reported that investors poured $8 billion into 3 prominent Gold ETFs over the first 6 months of 2010: SPDR Gold (GLD), iShares Gold Trust (IAU) and Physical Swiss Gold (SGOL). The former has size and name recognition and the latter...
2010-07-08 04:48:41
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SGOL Offers (Limited) Options for Investors
By Brad Zigler So far, the newly created option market for the ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (SGOL) offers very few, um, options for users. Option trading was launched Tuesday on SGOL and its sister trust, the ETFS Physical Silver Shares (SIVR), ...
2010-07-07 16:02:26
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A Closer Look at Gold and the Euro
You are currently following Scott’s Investments Stop Following The original article is published at...
2010-07-07 10:40:09
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Just One ETF: Safe-Haven Concerns Favor Gold Producers, Inflation or Not
Ryan Darwish of Eugene, Ore.-based Darwish Capital Management is a CFP and RIA and has been in the industry as an investment manager and financial planner for more than 20 years. Which single asset class are you most bullish (or bearish) about in the...
2010-07-07 10:40:09
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Stocks Should Stabilize this Week
The decline in the yield on the U.S. 10-Year note should stall between 2.999 and 2.813. It seems like Comex gold will struggle to return to its June 21st high of $1266.5. Nymex crude oil should spend the week between $71.71 and $77.05. The euro should...
2010-07-07 03:50:03
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Markets Continued Previous Week Risk Taking
Courtesy Of Forex Yard Wednesday, 7 Jul 2010 The EUR/USD pair continued last week rally during Tuesday trading session, which was the first trading day in the U.S. during this short trading week. The strength of the Euro came...
2010-07-07 03:00:06
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Gold and the Dollar Moving Together?
No, your charts aren’t playing tricks on you. Over the last couple of weeks, both gold and the dollar have struggled, and prior to that, both were in up-trends. The dollar and gold are supposed to move in opposite directions, right? Not recently.
2010-07-06 15:06:30
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