Optimizing Your Gold Investment Vehicle

By Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading There are many different investment vehicles one can use to invest in gold.  The key aspects that we as investors and traders look for are the vehicles relationship and correlation with gold prices, and how much that correlation is or isn’t leveraged to the gold price.  More leverage is [...]

Gold Investment Demand: Can It Last?

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Yesterday, gold closed at $1,182.30/oz, after hitting a five-month high of $1,188 intraday. Not since last December, when gold hit its all-time peak of $1,217/oz, have we seen prices at this level. In most other commodities, high prices generally trigger weakened demand, but for gold, this is where [...]

Gold Investment for Retired People

Bullion Vault Investing for income in your retirement…? ONE QUESTION I received recently goes to the heart of what people – a lot people but especially older, retired people – are going through, writes Chris Weber in Daily Wealth. “My wife and I are in our mid 70s. We have about 60% of our funds in gold, [...]

Maple Leaf Gold Bullion

The pride of Canadian coinage is the Maple Leaf gold bullion coin. The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) proudly produces these strikingly beautiful, one-ounce 24-Karat gold coins, and the Ottawa-based refinery and mint was the first in the world to offer 24-Karat bullion to the world in 1979. It wasn’t until 1982 however, that these modern [...]

Nepalese gold investment ‘rising’

Investment in gold is on the rise in Nepal as it is regarded as a hedge against inflation, according to the president of the Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers Association. Speaking to My Republica, Ratna Shakya commented that gold imports to the country this year are expected to exceed the 5,000kg recorded in the 2008-09 [...]

Weakening dollar and global recovery have increased demand for gold

The World Gold Council’s latest Gold Investment Digest, which covers activity to the end of Q3, noted gold demand rising on continuing dollar weakness and signs of a strogner global economy. Read more….

Gold bullion coins ‘ideal for first-time investors’

A gold expert has offered some tips to those looking to invest in the precious metal for the first time. Speaking to US-based ABC 4 News, Bob Campbell of All About Coins said it is often best to start slowly and learn the ropes of gold investment. The news feeds on this site are independently [...]

Buying Gold Bullion

There are a great many investors who deserve to feel a tremendous amount of self-satisfaction today, as independent thinking, and faith in their own judgment has rewarded them with far more than fiscal gains. Many of these investors were buying gold bullion long before our current economic trend, and all of these bold minded thinkers [...]

Gold Bullion Weight

Investors can benefit from working knowledge of gold bullion weight, by comparing the price of a prospective bullion bar or coin investment to the current gold spot price. The spot price is the cost of one Troy ounce of pure gold, and that price fluctuates throughout each day, according to global demand for the yellow [...]

Gold investment demand ‘soaring’

Investment demand for gold is continuing to increase as a result of inflationary concerns, according to one expert. Barry Wainstein, global head of the foreign exchange and precious metals division at Scotia Capital, told the Toronto Star that many people are still worried about inflation, prompting them to seek out the safe haven properties of [...]

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