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Gold managed to go above $1,400 an ounce for the first time – at one point reaching $1,424.02 – before slightly retreating by the end of the session. Petropavlovsk was just one of the major beneficiaries, as the Russian miner soared 79p to 1,027p.

The metal’s rise has been prompted in the last week by the US Federal Reserve’s decision to implement extra stimulus measures, which has resulted in the dollar weakening. Yet despite its rapid elevation, many believe the precious metal has still not peaked.

“Based on the current trends, it does look like there are further gains to come,” said IG Index’s David Jones. He added that the price of gold “does seem to have still an awful lot of momentum behind it, and many people are eyeing up $1,500 an ounce as the next logical target”.

Another company moving up on the back of the metal’s rise was African Barrick Gold, which put on 16.5p to 555p, and Randgold Resources, up 275p to 6,265p, which released its latest third-quarter figures yesterday.

Gold was not the only commodity on the up, with copper and tin just some of those that saw their value increase during the day. The result was a strong session for the miners, and they in turn inspired the FTSE 100

to finish on 5,875.19 points, a rise of 25.23.

Yet despite the miners’ gains, it was Schroders which reigned supreme over the blue-chip index. The investment manager released estimate-beating results for the third-quarter, and JP Morgan Cazenove welcomed the “positive surprise” of net flows that were twice what the broker had expected. The news meant that Schroders achieved a record of its own, closing up 87p on 1,667p, the highest price its shares have reached.

BP saw the benefit of the decision by the presidential commission tasked with looking into the Gulf oil spill to release its preliminary findings late on Monday. The investigators said that they agreed with much of BP’s analysis, most notably that the oil company had not cut back on safety in order to save money.

It was not all good news, however, as the panel did attack the firm’s attempts to plug the well before the explosion, but it was enough to ensure that BP was among the day’s major movers, climbing 10.45p to 454.45p.

Also enjoying an impressive day was Barclays, which released its third-quarter results and insisted that it would not have to ask for capital from investors to meet Basel III requirements. That took the heat off its investment banking unit, Barclays Capital, which saw a year-on-year drop in top level income of nearly 25 per cent. Phil Dobbin, an analyst at Shore Capital, predicted that the market would “feel relieved with today’s announcement”, and it duly responded, with the bank climbing 11.35p to 297p.

InterContinental Hotel’s latest update was rather less well received, as it failed to match earnings forecasts for the third quarter. The world’s largest hotel group – whose brands include Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza – blamed an increase in its staffing costs, and the news precipitated a fall of 62p to 1,140p. Still, the company remained in a better shape than in the summer; at one point in August its share price managed to drop to 982p.

Marks & Spencer was another faller, as Marc Bolland set out his strategy for the British institution. The company’s new head promised more investment in the UK and overseas, as well as its online operation, but its price dropped 7.2p to 406p.

On the FTSE 250, TalkTalk Telecom put on 6.3p to 139.6p following the emergence of rumours regarding a potential £2-a-share bid for the company. It is not the first time that takeover speculation has engulfed the broadband internet provider, which was spun off from Carphone Warehouse earlier in the year and has been seen as an attractive proposition ever since.

The announcement by Yell Group that Michael Pocock, formerly of Cisco, will be its new chief executive could not distract investors from an increasing fall in its sales over the second quarter. Down 12.1 per cent in the last three months, this resulted in a revenue drop of 11.2 per cent for the first half of the year. The company – which publishes the Yellow Pages directory – said that it would cut costs to meet profit expectations for the year, but despite this, it saw its share price disintegrate, down 3.19p to 12.37p.

Among the Aim-listed companies, Bowleven really set the pace as the oil explorer announced that it had made what it described as “potentially transformational” discoveries in its well off the coast of Cameroon.

With the company also revealing that it had managed to make a $19.5m (£12.2m) profit for the year after posting a loss for the previous 12 months, investors piled in, resulting in an increase in share price of more than a third as it reached 268.75p, up 69.25p.

Editorial provided by http://www.independent.co.uk/.

Gold miners denominated in euros also climbed to a two-month peak at 987.92 euros an ounce, while strength in the yellow metal lifted silver to 2-1/2 year highs at $20 an ounce.

Though another round of profit taking could take place before significant new highs are reached, “the trend is still pointing north,” Ole Hansen, a senior manager at Saxo Bank, told Reuters.

However, gold miners is not just a safe haven against a potential double dip and deflation. It should also perform well in the opposite economic scenario if the economies take off and the threat of inflation begins to loom.

“Gold wins in extremes,” said Paul Taylor, chief investment officer at BMO Harris Private Bank. “In a portfolio, it provides great benefits as it’s a protection against the two poles and there is a very real issue of either inflation or deflation.”

Rather than investing directly in bullion, Taylor said there are good opportunities in Canada’s gold miners stocks.

“I never like being exposed to the raw commodity,” he said. “The advantage you have from a company is you get price exposure to the metal, but also the acumen of the management and their ability to take the company and expand.

“You get the operating leverage and that’s important.”

Shares in Canada’s biggest gold miners companies were mixed on Tuesday, with Barrick Gold gaining 2.4% to $48.2. The stock is up about 34% since hitting a 52-week low in February. Goldcorp rose 0.8%. Kinross Gold slipped 0.2%.

Taylor said some of the mid-cap stocks, such as Agnico-Eagle and Eldorado, offer interesting opportunities.

Agnico recently turned in record results for the second quarter, with gold miners production doubling in the period. The company has properties in Canada, Finland and Mexico, so the political risks aren’t high, while it has very little debt, Taylor said.

Eldorado has been seeking to expand through acquisitions and carries more political risk. Its recent attempt to buy Argentine-focused miner Andean has been trumped by a higher bid from Goldcorp.

“It has a very robust growth profile,” Taylor said. “There is risk in mid-caps when they are attempting to build through acquisitions, so investors need to do their homework carefully.”

Provided by the Toronto Sun @ torontosun.com

However, ETFs tracking gold, silver and miners stocks may be on the verge of a breakout to the upside as they brush against key resistance levels.

With gold futures back near record highs, the $52 billion SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) is a couple bucks short of its own all-time high of $123.56 set in June.

The charts for iShares Silver Trust (SLV) and Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) tell a similar tale.

GDX, which invests in miners stock rather than the shiny stuff itself, has ballooned to a nearly $7 billion fund. The ETF has run into resistance at $54 several times this year, but a break above that level could be the all-clear sign for more gains.

Meanwhile, Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) has gathered assets of about $1.3 in less than a year. Like father, like son, I guess. Watch for a break above $31 on this ETF.

And let’s not forget silver- surged in late August and a solid rise above $19 could forecast additional gains. SLV has assets of $5.6 billion.

The interesting part about today’s market action is that gold and silver and miners ETFs are holding relatively steady as stocks surge, even though the metals are viewed as safe havens. A falling dollar today may explain some of this.

GLD, GDX, and GDXJ have all gained at least 13% year to date. The S&P 500 is down about 3% including Wednesday’s rally.

Produced by: John Spence @ http://www.marketwatch.com

And then people ask me, “Why are you screaming your head off in fear, you irritating little moron?” Naturally, I answer, with a voice tinged in scorn and loathing, “Because taxes are being raised in a recession, and so screaming in fear and outrage is the only appropriate public response, while buying gold, silver and oil is the only appropriate private response. So, ha! Who’s the moron NOW, you moron?”

Reportedly, there are 20 new taxes in the new ObamaCare sweeping takeover of the healthcare industry alone! Yikes!

At this kind of onslaught of Bad, Bad News (BBN), I instinctively seek the kind of comfort that only Mozart’s piano concertos, large-caliber weaponry, lots of gold, silver, oil stocks and yummy pizzas can provide, especially when I am faced with the twin macroeconomic disasters of huge expansions in the money supply and vast enlargements of a bankrupted, suffocating, enormous, parasitical system of incestuous governments.

In response, I am also keeping, hopefully, far away from the individual idiots running around loose in my neighborhood because I recently discovered that none of my neighbors – to this day! – are smart enough to answer a simple question, despite years – years! – of me constantly reminding them, “Hey! Moron! You had better get gold, silver and oil, because your idiot government is continually deficit-spending the excess money being created by the Federal Reserve so that inflation in consumer prices is guaranteed!”

So, the end results of all my generous labors to educate these halfwits? I recently asked them, “Have you bought any gold, silver or oil to save yourself, and make a lot of money, as the dollar continues to be destroyed? Or are you still acting like some ignorant bozo and keeping all your money in dollars and dollar-denominated assets so that you will end up broken and destroyed, your ruination causing misery and suffering for your spouse, your children and your grandchildren so that they all, periodically pausing from digging in the dirt for grubs and roots to eat, look up at you with raw contempt in their dry, sunken eyes, and ask you, ‘How come you didn’t buy gold when the government was deficit-spending so much money and the evil Federal Reserve was creating all that new money? You must be really stupid, because even The Mogambo could see it from a mile away, and he is one Really Stupid Guy (RSG)! And now he is so rich that when he saw me yesterday, he asked me if I was your kid, and I said I was, and then he laughed at me and offered me $100 if I would dance like a chicken in the middle of the street for 5 minutes so that he could make fun of the mutant offspring of a first-class idiot like you, and I willingly did it! Boo hoo hoo! I am so ashamed! We are ruined because you are so stupid, and now everyone knows that I am stupid, too! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!’”

Well, it seemed like an easy question to me, but everybody I asked turned around, ran into their stupid house and locked the stupid door, which proves that they are idiots because most people run into their houses and lock the door when they first see me coming from a block away, long before I even get within earshot! Hahaha! Morons!

They have no idea how embarrassing it is to me, The Mogambo, to have my own neighbors be So Freaking Stupid (SFS) as to still believe that the authorities can, somehow, engineer an economic miracle to save us from too much government spending and over-regulation, too much debt, and too much creation of too much new money and credit by the loathsome Federal Reserve.

And, even more embarrassing, they think the government and the banks can perform this marvelous, magical feat with a brilliant strategy of Much, Much More (MMM) government deficit-spending and regulation, plus Much, Much More (MMM) new money created by the Federal Reserve to pay for it all!! Hahahaha!

Naturally, I sum it up as, “We’re Freaking Doomed (WFD), you morons!”

Casey’s Daily Dispatch is not so brutally honest and scathing in its condemnation of idiots, and tones down my exact same message to the less confrontational, “Today we face the prospect of prolonged economic stagnation, and most governments are administering grossly abusive monetary policy as a remedy. While some of the consequences are already being felt, the full ramifications have not hit your wallet yet. But they will.”

And before the consequences start biting, Casey’s Dispatch says to buy gold “If you don’t have at least 10% of your investable assets in physical gold, or at least two months of living expenses.”

On the other hand, the Magnificent Mogambo Portfolio (MMP) thinks 10% gold is too low, as it means that the other 90% of your assets not in gold will be destroyed. MMP contains 100% of its invested assets in gold, silver and oil, and suggests that all others do so, too, mostly because it means that 100% of your assets will grow, which even an idiot like me can see is better than having 10% of my assets grow!

And that is why I, a happy idiot, say, “Whee! This investing stuff is easy!”

Provided by Richard Daughty @ http://www.dailyreckoning.com

The global investor market place is currently focused on wealth protection and insuring against downside risk, rather than on finding outsize returns.

This is one of the reasons behind the massive increase in intrest in gold seen over the second quarter of 2010 says Jason Toussaint, MD for investments at the World Gold Council.

Speaking on Mineweb.com’s Gold Miners Weekly Podcast on the day the WGC launched their Gold Demand Trends publication for the second quarter of 2010, Toussaint, said, “The majority of the inflows year-to-date of that 253 tonnes [of gold miners investment] occurred during the months of May and June. If we rewind the clock back to then and understand what was occurring in the world at that time, we had lingering effects from the currency crisis in Europe, the re-emergence of worries about the future of the global economy and the ability of governments globally to pay their sovereign debt – so a sovereign debt crisis of sorts.”

He added that the growth in gold miners investment interest was particularly noticeable in Europe where both ETFs and bar and coin demand rose.

“Certainly for the first half of the year, there was acknowledgment globally that the effects of the global crisis are far from over. So gold miners investors are becoming more conservative and particularly in Europe these figures indicate there is re-acknowledgement of gold investment – in this case, physical.

But, Toussaint believes that while this spike in demand, especially in Europe is partly the result of sentiments around the likelihood of further financial turmoil to come he says a far more important reason is that the view of gold as only useful as an investment of last resort is becoming antiquated.

“What we’re seeing now is more of a move in understanding of gold’s role as a strategic asset class for the long term. And let’s not forget, against the backdrop of 2008, when most global equity markets return negative 50% or more – having an investor lose half of their wealth and then buy gold, is kind of too late.

“So, investors say we’re either really good at predicting future crises which are occurring more frequently, or should we have some gold in our portfolio up to a certain percentage, which they deem appropriate for the long run – in case there are future shocks that there will be this kind of portfolio baseline asset that will protect at least a portion of our wealth.”

Indeed, Toussaint maintains, there has been a paradigm shift in the investment segment of the market, which was led by the rise of the gold backed exchange traded fund.

“In the second quarter we had 1,050 tonnes of aggregate demand – that’s a 36% increase year-on-year against the gold price at the same time that was going up – increased by 30%. So although the price of gold went up, the total demand went up and to your point the investment segment really led that.

” ETFs… made gold investable to many classes of investors, really for the first time – because if we look back before the ETFs were introduced, transacting and investing in physical bullion required you to find a place to transact it, which then requires you to understand price discovery mechanisms….those extra hurdles of investment put a cap or limited the investor market place.”

Provided by: Geoff Candy from http://www.mineweb.com

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The television and radio airwaves are filled with ads about silver and gold. TV ads want you to sell your silver and gold. Radio and Internet ads want you to buy it. What gives?

Precious metals are currently up a large amount. Gold has been bouncing around at about $1,200 per ounce for the last couple of months. It spent all of the 1990s at about $300 to $400. Silver has been bouncing around about $18 per ounce. Silver spent all of the 1990s at about $4.50 per ounce. Why? Is the smart person buying or selling?

We have all heard the old adage, “buy low and sell high.” But what is low and what is high? Should I get in now, or is it too late?

In my opinion, that depends on what your intentions are. I started collecting coins when I was 12-years-old. I had quite the collection until someone else desired it more than I apparently did. That said, I have semi passively followed the precious metals markets and collectable coins market for several decades.

Among the best pieces of advice I have come across is: Coins and precious metals aren’t really an investment. Rather, they are a store of value. In something I read somewhere, a writer commented that an ounce of silver will buy as much food staples today as it would buy in Roman times. I don’t know if it is true, but it is a plausible and interesting thought.

Suppose you had some money that you could save or invest. What to do? Interest rates are generally below 1 percent. The stock market has been up and down but unable to stay above 10,000 for the past 10 years. Real estate is down, and unoccupied property can eat you alive with taxes and other costs. Gold and silver are bragging that they have been steadily rising over the past few years.

The “experts” say that inflation has been somewhere between 1 percent and -1 percent. Apparently, these experts haven’t been grocery shopping over the past couple of years. Inflation takes wealth from people who have cash (each dollar is worth less) and increases the cost of stuff making it more valuable (it costs more dollars to get). Inflation means that the value of real estate, stocks, and tangible assets will rise as the value of the dollar falls.

I am not by any means an expert. However, I don’t know how a government can spend trillions of dollars it does not have without inflation showing up sooner or later. If inflation comes, it is better to have less cash and more stuff. People with cash savings, money markets, bonds, CD’s, etc. will take it on the chin. People who have stuff like stocks, real estate, metals, etc., will suffer less.

Should you buy silver or gold? That depends on each individual. People with large amounts of money to invest who have a diversified investment strategy are probably fine. People who own profitable real estate are probably fine. But even “little guys” can save a few old coins.

If you have money that you do not need for your regular expenses and are willing to take the risk of loss, if it is something you can hang onto for a long time and are not expecting to “get rich quick,” you may consider buying some silver or gold.

WARNING: In 1980, when silver rose to $46 per ounce, my mother bought a couple of ounces with the intent of selling when it went up from there. That day, a Friday, the price crested $50 per ounce. On Monday morning, the U.S. Treasury announced that it was selling some of its silver and gold reserves and the price tumbled. Mom still has that silver. The highest it has ever gotten since that day is $19.60 per ounce.

If you chose to buy some silver or gold, one expert I read advised the following:

Always take physical possession, don’t buy commodities contracts. Never pay above market prices (No Premiums). Buy bullion for “business,” buy collectibles for fun. Buy silver first, then gold. Buy small gold first, then large. Never buy exotic coins, modern rarities, or anything you don’t understand. Know who you are dealing with; it is easy to get ripped off. If the government can’t find it, they can’t take it (like they did in 1933). Never swap bullion coins for U.S. $20 gold pieces. (They have a high premium because of their collectors’ interest since they were largely seized by the government and melted in 1933.) NEVER break the law.

Provided by: http://www.thebraziltimes.com