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The Golden rule? Thoughts on gold as an investment
Monday, April 22, 2013 23:16
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Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, gold is a “riddle, wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma”, at least as far as I am concerned. I don’t understand what moves the gold price and I have never held gold in my portfolio. That does not mean, however, that I am not fascinated by the price of gold and immune from its movements. That was brought home last week, when the price of gold dropped by 9% on April 15, 2013, the biggest one day drop in thirty years. Not only did the prices of other precious metals (silver dropped 12%) and industrial metals drop, but stock prices took a tumble as well. While the attention has focused on the price drop in recent days, gold has had a good run over the last decade.
