Financial Planning

Year of the Golden Boar to spark Chinese gold buying
The Chinese New Year of the Boar starts on February 18 on the Gregorian calendar and coincides with a metals year on the five year elemental cycle and the metal associated with this is traditionally gold. It is also called the Year of the Golden Boar and comes around only once every 60 years.
United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, February 27 - 2007 at 10:18 |

Will gold or gold shares offer the best downside protection in a global asset sell-off?
Investors around the world are starting to sound alarm bells at the length of the bull market in equities, now approaching four years old. Investors in precious metals and related shares are also concerned that they will get dragged down by a big global asset sell-off. But are physical gold or silver, or mining shares the better buy?
Sunday, February 18 - 2007 at 10:50 |

Juniors and self publicists: how to profit most from gold at $1000
Whether the International Monetary fund recasts its rule book against the manipulation of the gold market by central banks, or Chinese and speculative buyers push up the price from $666 an ounce at the close last week, there is an emerging consensus that $1,000 is a reasonable target for the yellow metal. Leveraging off this trend then ought then to be a friend indeed.
Sunday, February 11 - 2007 at 08:25 |

Will gold and silver hedge against global capital market declines?
Investors typically buy precious metals as a hedge against inflation or weakness in the US dollar. But perhaps gold and silver are about to up their game and become a far more widely accepted money substitute and should not really be considered as a commodity anymore. Then prices will move much higher.
Monday, February 05 - 2007 at 08:55 |

IMF gold trading rule changes set to boost the gold price
The International Monetary Fund is in the process of revising the laws that govern the trading of gold by the world’s central banks which will radically change the ability of central bankers to suppress the gold price, a major factor depressing the price of the yellow metal that has been an open secret for years.
Sunday, January 28 - 2007 at 10:05 |

A year when cash will be king!
Investors sometimes forget that not all years are good for global asset prices. There have been some very bad ones: 1929, 1974, 1987, 2000, and how about 2007?
Wednesday, January 24 - 2007 at 15:52 |

Was the 2006 gold price peak like 1980 or 1975?
For gold investors this is an enormously significant question as the blow-off in 1980 marked the start of a 20-year bear market while the 1975-6 correction was merely a stumble on the road to the biggest ever surge in gold prices in 1980, price levels that have still not been exceeded.
Sunday, January 14 - 2007 at 10:24 |

Watch out for a bull market correction in oil, gold and other commodities!
The New Year has started with a bang with oil prices slumping by 10% and commodity prices following this lead. Even the safe haven of precious metals took a tumble with gold and silver prices suffering a similar sharp reversal.
Sunday, January 07 - 2007 at 09:31 |