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By Frank Holmes |
April 17, 2012
Gold bulls have plenty of room to graze in the stockyard these days as the investing herd migrated to other assets during the market’s steep climb in 2012. For the fourth time in the past year, gold bears outnumbered the bulls in Bloomberg’s weekly Gold Bull/Bear Sentiment Survey.
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By Frank Holmes |
August 30, 2011
One market trend that seems to be attracting more and more attention is the large performance gap between gold bullion and gold stocks. The price of gold bullion has increased roughly 28% in 2011, while the S&P/TSX Gold Index was recently down 1%.
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By Frank Holmes |
June 20, 2011
While the party continues for gold bullion prices, stocks of gold companies have been a no-show. The NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index has fallen more than 13% year-to-date and the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index has toppled more than 16%.
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By Frank Holmes |
September 3, 2010
This week kicked off what has historically been the strongest period (September through December) of the year for mining stocks, base metals and gold.
