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By Adrian Ash |
May 21, 2012
Spot gold prices touched a seven-session high just shy of $1,600 per ounce in London's wholesale market early Monday, falling back to last week's finish at $1,593 as European stock markets rose for the first time in 10 days.
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By Adrian Ash |
May 17, 2012
So the price of gold keeps falling, and it keeps falling despite the imminent failure of Greece's euro membership, the looming collapse of Europe's banking system, and the fast-looming debt-ceiling repeat and fiscal cliff in the US.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
May 15, 2012
JP Morgan (JPM) just gave us the preview of the next financial crisis. A surprise, hidden $2 billion trading loss in esoteric foreign derivatives at on offshore branch by America’s premier bank is exactly what the markets did not want to hear right now.
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By Marshall Swing |
May 4, 2012
The precious metals marketplace is all abuzz about the 7,500 contract trade in gold on Monday. Gold fell $15 in the space of a minute. Speculative traders think the trade could have been a fat finger. Comex floor traders say otherwise.
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By Peter Krauth |
April 6, 2012
No one knows the machinations of the day-to-day silver price better than Ted Butler. So naturally, that's whom I turned to for an in-depth perspective on what's really going on with the silver price. As usual, Ted tells it like it is.
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By Adrian Ash |
March 14, 2012
You can never know whether you're buying an uptrend, instead of the top. And gold took very nearly 28 years to recover its January 1980 high – at $850 per ounce – 7,025 trading days to be exact.
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By Adrian Ash |
January 9, 2012
Both silver and gold bullion sit within the top 0.2% of US mutual funds over the last 10, five and three years. No guarantee that performance will continue, of course. But you might want to ask mutual-fund managers what they are planning to do in 2012.
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By James Turk |
January 2, 2012
Gold is a barometer of the ill winds stirred by monetary problems. It is as reliable as a canary in a coalmine. The rising price of gold flashes for everyone a clear warning signal. And a rising gold price is what we can expect in 2012.
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By Karen Roche |
September 23, 2011
The money supply increases naturally by exactly the amount of increases in productivity in a healthy economy, notes Stansberry & Associates Investment Research Founder Porter Stansberry in this interview.
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By David Morgan |
August 31, 2011
The views on this topic vary. Some insist that both metals will do well under almost any economic conditions; some think neither gold nor silver will do well and others believe gold and gold alone will be the thing left standing. Confused? You should be.