Tag Archives: silver

History, as well as recent action, suggests that weakness in the stock market is more crucial to gold’s future than weakness in the US Dollar.

Today’s infographic comes to us from Neptune-GBX and it showcases the story of each precious metal and, more importantly, it shows why owning them simultaneously is the only way to get exposure to the unique supply and demand drivers behind each of them in the context of the modern market.

Larger allocations to gold are merited, then silver and investors should consider very small allocations to platinum and palladium.

If wealth preservation investors get out of their stocks and buy silver, they are likely to avoid the most massive wealth destruction in the next few years. Let me explain.

The fact that relatively few investors know much about the various types of companies in the precious metals mining sector is an indication that this market is many years away from peaking. This article provides a basic check-list of what to look for in these companies.

While investing in gold mining companies is not quite as simple as novices to this sector might at first conclude, neither is it so overwhelmingly complicated as to make these companies inaccessible to individual, retail investors. Below are a number of things to look for when considering an investment in such companies. Words: 2745

This scheme of revolving credit will end badly when the pigeons come home to roost; when the piper has to be paid; when we find out that there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is just a matter of time before we become the last of society’s ‘greater fools’ and, as such, are the ones required to pay the inevitable price of achieving future economic and financial stability.

We all want the best price we can get on our gold & silver purchases. It’s only natural, and any good consumer will consider the timing of their investment decisions. It’s a question almost every investor asks: am I getting a good price now, or should I wait and get a better price in the future? Well, history has an empirical answer for you.

Investing in some form of precious metals is the preferable way to protect oneself from rising inflation/decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar and here are 10 ETFs and ETNs and 5 mutual funds to do just that. Words: 879

Whole oceans of ink have been spilled detailing the good and not-so-good points of the closed-end fund CEF (Central Fund of Canada) and the twin ETF's GLD (SPDR Gold Trust) and SLV (iShares Silver Trust) funds. My goal here is to distill the salient points down to the fewest words possible to help make your due diligence task somewhat less...well...tasking. [Let's go!] Words: 650