There are great opportunities, but also the potential for painful setbacks. The sentiment, of course, applies to all markets – and life in general. Welcome to 2012. What opportunities and surprises can we look for in the year ahead? Some thoughts…
January 17th, 2012 | Chris Mayer | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "gold stocks"
AUD Price of Gold a Measure of Gold’s Strength Against Other Currencies
Ah. So for gold to move in Aussie dollar terms there has to be more than just a big bear market in the USD. Demand for gold has to rise globally.
October 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Aussie Dollar Ready to Storm Past US Dollar
Yesterday’s episode of the Daily Reckoning left off with the question of whether 5,000 was in sight on the ASX 200. The answer today is that it is just over the horizon. The index closed up 2.3% to 4,695. The more investors thought about the recovery/China/demise of the dollar story, the more they liked buying stocks (especially gold stocks).
October 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 26 comments | Continued
Big Difference Between Stark News in Job Market and Behaviour of Stock Market
There have been jobless recoveries from recession before. But you still have to wonder how there can be such a big difference between the stark news in the job market and the behaviour of the stock market. True, economists will tell you that jobs are the last thing to recover from a recession. Businesses don’t hire until they are sure everything is in the clear.
October 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Arable Farmland More Precious Than Gold
There is another candidate for “largest Chinese investment in Australia ever.” But this time, it involves an asset that is arguably more strategic than oil and more precious than gold. But before we get to that little drama in the Australian share market (and the five-year opportunity it represents), spare a thought for gold.
September 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 13 comments | Continued
September is the Best Month for Gold
Over the past four decades, September has been the best time for gold in terms of its month-over-month price appreciation. You can see this on the chart below – in a typical year, the price of gold in September rises 2.5 percent above its August price.
September 3rd, 2009 | Frank Holmes | 7 comments | Continued
Right Time for Gold Stocks
One hundred dollars invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1971 underperformed the gold-stock index essentially for a quarter-century. In each of these years…
June 24th, 2009 | Frank Holmes | 1 comment | Continued
Gold Share Investors May Stumble Upon the Bull Market
There are only two things gold bulls should worry about from this point forward, now that the general commodity correction is out of the way and the froth has been worked out of the market: deflation in the strict sense of the term (monetary, not asset deflation) or a suddenly brightening economic outlook, both of which, in this writer’s opinion, would require a political austerity hardly imaginable these days.
October 16th, 2008 | Ed Bugos | 1 comment | Continued
Big Gold Editors Interview Famous Contrarian Doug Casey
Doug Casey: The fact that gold has moved above its 1980 high is meaningful only in an academic way; today’s dollar is worth only a fraction of a 1980 dollar. From here on, it’s best to avoid thinking about anything just in terms of dollars. What’s developing now is likely to be the biggest monetary crisis of the past 100 years…
April 2nd, 2008 | The Daily Reckoning | 4 comments | Continued
