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Gold
Gold was down $7.30 to $937.40 per ounce in trading in New York on Friday but silver was up 10 cents to $18.08 per ounce. Gold continued to weaken in Asia but has strengthened somewhat in early European trading and is trading at $934.10 per ounce.
Another mooted IMF gold proposal (more below) may have led […]

Mark Twain said; “Buy land, they’re not making any more of it”
One question I am repeatedly asked is this: “which is a better investment, Property or the Stockmarket”.
As with so many things in life, the answer is “it depends”.
I have to agree with Mark Twain’s observation. Land is a finite resource, and we live on […]

CNBC conducted an Interview with Stephen Flood, director of Gold Investments, this morning.
How High Can Gold Go?
“Gold is doing exactly what it should do in this market: it is reacting to risk. People are turning to it as a safe-haven asset,” according to Stephen Flood from Gold Investments.
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Stephen appeared […]

Gold
Gold was down $1 to $944.70 per ounce in trading in New York on Friday but silver was up 10 cents to $18.00 per ounce. Gold rose close to new nominal record highs in early European trading ($951.90) and silver rose to new 27 year highs ($18.15). Last week gold was up by […]

And does it matter?
The foundation of Modern Portfolio Theory was a 1952 paper, “Portfolio Selection” by Dr Harry Markowitz in which he established a theory explaining the best way for an investor to choose a portfolio. Modern Portfolio Theory is of such fundamental importance in investing that the economists that formulated the theory received the […]