It is obvious that through this crisis, despite some turbulence, gold prices have held up better than just about any other asset, commodity or currency (other than dollars and yen) we may imagine. From the point of view of a gold miner, this is a very good thing. Even better is that the price of oil, a significant cost input for miners, has fallen a lot relative to gold. This is bullish for margins…
February 4th, 2009 | Ed Bugos | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "gold ratio"
Gold Bullion’s New 14-Year High
With the Dow Jones index dipping below 9,000 last week, the price of gold held near $850 an ounce – at least until last Thursday’s AM Gold Fix in London. (It’s since lost $100; more in a moment.) So the Dow/Gold Ratio – which simply divides the one by the other, thus pricing the Dow Jones Industrial Average in ounces of gold – fell to a little above ten, making the 30 stocks of the DJIA cheaper in Gold Bullion terms than at any time since January 1995…
October 23rd, 2008 | Adrian Ash | 0 comments | Continued