Posts Tagged ‘ gold prices ’

The Gold Correction

Jul 29th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
Last week we saw a bounce in the stock market that threatened to send the price of gold down to the $920 mark. After a lightening advance celebrating the approval of the quasi-nationalization of America's too-big-to-fail mortgage providers, the market caved on reports of continued stress in the homebuilders. The Dow ...read more

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Gold Price Dips

Jun 19th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
What you make of the gold market right now depends on what you make of the kind of data UBS’s precious metals team follows. Big institutional players in the New York futures market slashed their bullish betting on gold in the week of June 10. Data from the CFTC — the ...read more

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Investing in Gold Options

Mar 26th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
So you own a portfolio of gold stocks and you’re worried about losing some of your gains to the return of a bear market on Wall Street, or a correction in oil prices, or a temporary bounce in the U.S. dollar. You tell yourself that these things are not fundamentally bearish ...read more

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The Dollar’s Continued Fall

Mar 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities, Currencies
“Those who oppose reform may get revolution.” — John F. Kennedy, speaking of Latin America in 1962 THE EURO HIT FRESH ALL-TIME HIGHS VERSUS THE DOLLAR already this month — and we’re only one trading week in. So might U.S. investors want to switch out of gold bullion ahead of Easter this year ...read more

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The Price of Gold

Feb 6th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
GOLD CRITICS OFTEN SAY THAT THE SHINY YELLOW METAL has few industrial uses, compared with, say, silver or copper. That happens to be what we call a half truth. It’s also beside the point. It is usually lamented by bears refusing to accept the market’s valuation of gold. The whole truth ...read more

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The Naked Truth

Jan 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Gold
A HISTORIC MILESTONE IS NEARBY. In December, the gold price raced off to record highs for the first time in almost three decades. Now it looks to be closing in on 1,000 U.S. bucks. That is four digits. It will also be four times the 1999 low. The market has added dollars ...read more

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