Tag: Gold
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Gold Makes Record Run
INCIDENT: On 7 December, gold hit an all-time high above US$1,425 per ounce (London morning fix), after having risen from under $300 per ounce at the beginning of the millennium and from just over $700 per ounce only a little over two years ago (all figures in current dollars). SIGNIFICANCE: While the recent spike in…
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Gold Soars off European Debt Crisis
Thus far this week has provided plenty of fuel for higher Gold prices as the economic climate in the European Union continues to drive savvy investors out of the traditional “fiat currencies” and in to “safer havens “especially gold as it has a history of performing better than most commodities in times of crisis. It…
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Wealthy Investors Hoard Bullion
Investors in gold are demanding “unprecedented” amounts of bullion bars and coins and moving them into their own vaults as fears about the health of the global financial system deepen. Industry executives and bankers at the London Bullion Market Association annual meeting said the extent of the move into physical gold was unseen and driven…
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Russia leading global ‘stealth demand’ for gold
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The world’s big money brigade is snapping up gold bullion at eight times the rate originally thought, according to a report by UBS, the world’s biggest gold trader. The huge sums entering precious metals below the radar are likely to help to put a floor under the gold price after the dramatic…