The economy has had more than its share of trouble lately: Japan’s earthquake comes on top of rising oil and food prices, political turmoil in the Middle East and a crop of government austerity measures. But investing opportuni…
Some are convinced the precious metal will keep rising, others that it’s tracing out a classic speculative bubble that’s ready to burst. Nobody has a crystal ball, but an “agnostic” technical analysis of the charts provides som…
Prices for copper, gold, wheat, corn and oil are soaring. But how can small investors can take advantage of this growth without taking on way too much risk? That’s a good question, indeed. And here are some good answers.
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Gold is on a record bull run, up from $328 in 2002 to $1,375 an ounce today. What caused that steep rise wasn’t any inherent increase in gold’s value to society, but a clever marketing scheme that allowed it to be traded easil…
A good deal of gold’s meteoric gains over the last five years can be attributed to the gargantuan success of an exchange-traded fund that made it easy for investors to pile into the precious metal. If the tide turns, though, th…