Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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September 17 - Gold, News - Comments
Exchange-traded funds have made it easier than ever for investors to build a diversified portfolio.
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September 13 - ETF Trading, News - Comments
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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September 13 - Gold, News - Comments
There is a misconception that the price of gold is driven solely by investor demand, but this is not the case.
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September 12 - Gold, News - Comments
Gold finished today on an upbeat note, as concerns about the impact of sluggish employment growth, and the potential for escalated conflict in Syria, pushed the yellow metal up...
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September 12 - Commodities, Gold, News - Comments
Bullion investment now represents a quarter of total world demand for silver.
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September 12 - Commodities, Gold, News - Comments
Investors are monitoring the fast approaching debt ceiling limit on federal spending. The U.S government could reach its debt limit by mid-October.
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September 10 - Commodities, Gold, News - Comments
The gold market has started to recover in the past several weeks. For instance, so far in August, the price of gold has risen over 8%.
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September 3 - Commodities, News - Comments
The price of gold touched $1,420 an ounce this week, a 3.5-month high, as escalating tensions in the Middle East, volatile currency markets and renewed demand for jewelry in...
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September 3 - ETF Trading, News - Comments
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has soured on Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX).
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August 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge funds and other speculative investors have shifted their investments away from gold to equity markets yielding higher returns.
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August 28 - Commodities, News - Comments
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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August 27 - Commodities, News - Comments
While there can be no doubt that the U.S.
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August 27 - Commodities, News - Comments
Science describes light as both a wave and a particle.
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August 26 - Commodities, News - Comments
Gold's shimmer is losing its luster. And as gold grows more dull, Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) feels more and more pain.
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August 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
As Ben Bernanke's tenure as the chairman of the Federal Reserve nears its end, the debate and battle over who will assume control is one of the most important contests currently...
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August 21 - News - Comments
While U.S. Treasury yields hit new highs at the end of last week's trading session, driving the U.S.
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August 20 - News - Comments
Analysts are maintaining their target price of $1,250, which implies a modest downside. Yet the infomercials attempt to make the case that gold is destined to reach $5,000 an...
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August 5 - ETF Trading - Comments
Gold hasn’t performed well during the year: The price of gold has fallen by more than 20%.
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August 2 - News - Comments
Hedge fund titan John Paulson has received a lot of negative press in recent months over his firm’s gold position.
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July 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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July 22 - News - Comments
Now that the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) has reached record highs once more, investors are finally starting to recognize the advantages of U.S.
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July 22 - News - Comments
People have been trading gold for more than 200 years now. Gold is the one commodity that has remained attractive over the years with gradual gains.
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July 22 - News - Comments
One of the first lessons beginning investors learn is the value of diversification in preventing big losses.
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July 15 - News - Comments
As the price of gold has tumbled, gold mining stocks have been utterly eviscerated.
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July 12 - News - Comments
Given the numerous concerns heading into 2013, few investors expected to have a breakout performance in equities.
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July 8 - News - Comments
If you thought last month was volatile, you were on to something.
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July 8 - News - Comments
As the Federal Reserve created more money, you waited and waited for gold to move higher, unconsciously clenching your fists whenever you looked at the ticker, and frantically...
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July 5 - News - Comments
Investors in the S&P 500 have to be pleased about the index's strong performance so far in 2013, with gains of about 13% marking the benchmark's best performance this millennium...
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July 5 - News - Comments
Investors have long cited, at least anecdotally, the existence of a newspaper indicator -- that is to say, when the front page of a mainstream newspaper is dedicated to the market...
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July 5 - News - Comments
Gold, as measured by the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSEMKT:GLD) is down a remarkable 30% from its 52-week high.
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July 3 - News - Comments
Mid-week holidays are a relative rarity for the stock market, and Thursday's Independence Day holiday prompted the stock exchanges to set a 1 p.m.
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July 3 - News - Comments
With three straight days of decent gains, investors seem finally to have shaken off the macro jitters they experienced in the wake of last week's Fed "surprise" announcement.
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June 28 - News - Comments
In the first quarter, Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) reported a 10% year-over-year decline in its institutional client-services segment, which handles all of the fixed income...
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June 27 - News - Comments
After notching up a positive return yesterday, stocks are starting off on the same track this morning, with the S&P 500 and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Higher dependency on golddate) as they tumbled by more than 35%.
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June 27 - News - Comments
Last week, Ben Bernanke announced to Congress that if recovery trends continue, the Federal Reserve will begin to taper its purchase of government-backed securities.
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June 25 - News - Comments
After a long run of record highs throughout the year, U.S. investors aren't used to losses like we saw last week.
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June 24 - News - Comments
Last week was an important week for the markets: On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Open Market Committee and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke clarified the central bank...
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June 24 - News - Comments
With the FOMC wrapping up their two day meeting on Wednesday and announcing the future outlook of the quantitative easing program, the idea of inflation is particularly elevated...
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June 20 - News - Comments
In a recent, interesting article on the Fool’s blog network the author tries to settle which precious metal, gold or silver, is a better investment and serves as a better hedge...
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June 19 - News - Comments
LONDON -- The price of gold bounced around last week, ranging between $1,366 and $1,395 per ounce.
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June 18 - News - Comments
LONDON -- After a steady start last week, gold reversed its earlier gains on Friday and slumped below $1,400 once more.
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June 10 - News - Comments
Gold prices are down about 17% year to date, while the S&P 500 is up about 13%.
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June 10 - News - Comments
From a high point near $1,900 an ounce reached in August of 2011 -- and a more recent high near $1,800 last September -- gold prices have plunged to something like $1,400 an ounce...
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June 4 - News - Comments
The world’s leading gold producer Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) recently released its quarterly results, in which its profits fell on lower prices and lower volumes...
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May 30 - News - Comments
Of course, the only practical way for most private investors to invest in gold is through exchange-traded funds.
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May 28 - News - Comments
Many in the investment community have been sounding the warning bells over the future direction of gold, given all that's occurring in the global macroeconomic landscape.
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May 28 - News - Comments
Since its precipitous fall in mid-April, the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSEARCA:GLD) has been largely range-bound ever since, both struggling to recover and testing previous lows...
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May 28 - News - Comments
Friday's trading session saw a halt in trading of two major precious-metals companies on news that the Chilean government was shutting down operations at the Pascua Lama mine.
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May 28 - News - Comments
