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By Frank Holmes |
May 3, 2013
Sometimes following where money is being invested is a solid course of action to gain alpha; other times, a better opportunity lies in going the opposite direction, i.e., thinking contrarian.
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By Ben Traynor |
March 26, 2013
"Given the business cycle is in the 'recovery' stage, investors lack a reason to increase their exposure to gold at present," says a note from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which today cut its 2013 gold forecast by $10 an ounce to $1,670.
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By Jordan Roy-Byrne |
March 22, 2013
Our title seems obvious. We all know that the U.S. dollar tends to be negatively correlated with commodity prices. This is true in the short-term but not always so over the long-term.
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By Adrian Ash |
January 24, 2013
Meantime at the World Economic Forum of policy-makers and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, "We are buying gold and will continue to pursue this course," said Russia's first deputy chairman Alexei Ulyukayev today.
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By Frank Holmes |
January 16, 2013
With a barrage of negative headlines and abhorrence toward risk, investors have seemed to feel that equities would not improve going forward. This has turned out to be a mistaken belief.
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By Ben Traynor |
December 12, 2012
The spot gold price climbed back above $1,715 an ounce Wednesday morning, around ten dollars up from last week's close, as stocks, commodities and the euro also edged higher and US Treasuries dipped, ahead of today's Federal Reserve policy announcement.
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By Frank Holmes |
December 3, 2012
This might be the year that the world fully realizes the significant contribution North America has made to the overall global oil supply, especially after the IEA claimed that the US would surpass Saudi Arabia as the largest oil producer around 2020.
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By Ben Traynor |
November 13, 2012
Price for gold bullion on the wholesale market rose to $1,730 an ounce this morning in London, after drifting lower overnight, as the euro jumped half-a-cent against the dollar.
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By Ben Traynor |
November 9, 2012
Prices in the wholesale gold bullion market traded above $1,730 an ounce Friday morning in London, having earlier touched a two-week high, while stocks fell and the dollar and US Treasury bonds gained.
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By Ben Traynor |
October 18, 2012
Spot market gold bullion prices fell towards $1,740 per ounce Thursday lunchtime in London, 0.8% down on the week so far, while most European stock indexes also ticked lower ahead of today's European leaders' summit in Brussels.