Dec 1, 2011

If you’ve been mulling over whether having some gold shares might be a good thing, then WARNING! the following might convince you.  It details how both the larger producers and also juniors performed in previous bull markets in mining shares.  Some of the percentage gains were staggering even to us.  However the shares have been lagging  physical...

If you are somewhat new to the world of gold and have asked yourself the question “Is it too late to buy?”, the following is an absolute must read.  It’s lengthy but full of charts and is a great summary of just where we are at now.  In this article just some of what Bud Conrad covers includes: How the Sovereign debt crisis arose How it will...

If you worry about the day to day fluctuations in gold then the following set of charts should help ease your mind a great deal.  They show the corrections gold has had over the last decade plotted on a daily, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.  They’ll help really add some perspective.  The charts actually show how little volatility gold has in the...

The  data in the following article is based upon the USD price of gold, however if we look at the below latest short term gold chart in NZ dollars we can see it’s already been a pretty good past month so far for NZ holders.  With gold in NZD rising from $2040 in late October to as high as $2340 yesterday before the sharp fall today.  So if the seasonal...

Good news – gold up.  Bad news – gold up. Over the weekend the reports were gold rose in line with riskier assets such as the broader stockmarket on Friday US time. (Reuters) Gold rose 1 percent on Friday, breaking a four-day losing streak, as bullion moved in sync once again with riskier assets on optimism European leaders will be able to contain...