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Gains on the sale of precious metals and related exchange-traded funds are subject to tax rates as high as 28% when such investments have been held for more than a year.
Long considered the ultimate refuge for nervous investors, gold has climbed as the dollar has steadily weakened, budget deficits have expanded in the United States and Europe, and central banks...
Recently, gold hit $1000/ounce even though gold purchased by jewellers dropped by 22% during the last quarter. The investors’ enthusiasm towards gold thinking they need more protection against...
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Many people are buying gold due to inflation and stock market fears, but as the article describes, there are risks:
As an inflation hedge, gold's record isn't perfect either. After reaching a...
Investment bubbles usually begin as legitimate bull markets, and I wouldn't be surprised if gold were next.
First, there's a serious investment case. Central banks are flooding the world economy...
As the numbers show, commodities are notoriously volatile and fickle, making it hard for the average investor to make money off of them. After years of sharp ups and downs, many investors find that...
All the talk of metal investing in recent months has focused on the safe-haven and inflation hedge of gold. Yet other metals, notably copper and silver, have been starting to attract investor...
Gold is valuable today simply because many people want to own it. Some think it will make them rich, perhaps because of gold’s historical connection to wealth. But that is wrongheaded. Gold...
Is gold really a hedge against inflation? The conventional wisdom says yes but the data seems to suggest otherwise. Indeed, the data suggestions that gold is not a hedge against inflation as it is...
I am not as bearish on gold as I once was, but I still see it is a hedging strategy in case stock markets start to tumble, rather than a pure play, long term investment. Gold certainly has both...
After a blogger's post of his bad experience with the gold buying service Cash4Gold gets top placement for a Google search for Cash4Gold, a representative of Cash4Gold offers the blogger $3,000 to...
Of all the major assets -- stocks, corporate bonds, cash and others -- gold was one of last year's few standouts. While so many investments collapsed amid the turmoil, the price of an ounce of gold...
Goldman Sachs analyst Jeffrie Currie predicts that oil will rally swiftly and violently rise as bear market fundamentals like the war in Gaza and the Russian pipeline dispute dominate.