Precious Metals

May 13 2013 9:30 AM

A growing number of buyers in China and India are jumping into the market and driving demand for jewelry, coins and bars.

May 09 2013 8:50 AM

Gold climbed $20.60 or 1.42% yesterday to $1,472.60/oz and silver finished nearly unchanged -0.08%. Jewellers across the world are seeing a surge in jewellery purchases because consumers are taking advantage of the price drop and purchasing investment pieces that will grow in value over time.

May 06 2013 1:33 PM

May 6th, 2013 at 12:56 pmHow to trade Gold and other precious metals related investments is not that complex. But you must be willing to wait for price to provide low risk entry points before getting involved. Precious metals are like any other investment in respect to trading and investing in them. There are times when you should be long, times to be in cash and times to be short (benefit from falling prices).

May 02 2013 3:24 PM

China's "granny effect" trumps the investment advice of Goldman Sachs.

May 02 2013 8:00 AM

In the last seven months or so we have seen the Gold Bugs index, HUI, fall from 520 in October 2012 to 283 today 01 May 2013, registering a loss of 45% in the value of its constituents. The last four weeks has seen the HUI drop 100 points followed by a bounce of 23 points. Many are of the opinion that the bottom is in and are hopeful of a decent rally from this point in order to restore some normality to this tiny sector and repair their investment accounts. The chart below depicts the plight of the gold miners and the severity of the recent carnage that has decimated the stock prices at a time when they need all the friends they can get.

April 26 2013 12:27 PM

The death penalty is on the books in Sri Lanka, but no executions have taken place since 1976.

April 25 2013 1:04 PM

In the 19th century, millions of koalas roamed all across Australia. There are now no more than 100,000 on the entire continent.

April 12 2013 11:23 AM

The cyclical bear market in Silver is serving its purpose. Its correcting and digesting the 6-fold advance that took place in less than two and a half years. A similar correction took place in the mid 1970s that led to the parabolic move to $50. Amazingly, if you line up Silver’s performance from its 1971 low to 1980 high with Silver’s performance since its 2008 bottom, you’ll notice strong parallels.

April 10 2013 7:54 AM

Exchange-traded fund redemptions are contributing to Goldman Sachs' prediction that the gold price will slide to $1,450 by year's end.