Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold—everyone wants to own gold! Gold IRA accounts, those which allow investors to buy gold bullion and collectable coins inside an individual retirement account for future retirement costs, aren’t all they’re made out to be.
In fact, investors who buy gold IRA accounts may find that they’re losing far more than they could ever possibly make. We’ll explain why gold IRA accounts aren’t the right way to go.
Gold and Government
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Precious Metals
bullion, gold, individual retirement account, ira, palladium, platinum, premiums, silver, spot price
It is starting to look like there is great weakness in the silver and gold bubble that started nearly one decade ago. Recently, the price of silver has plummeted, which commentators have said is partly to do with the COMEX (CME Group’s) margin hikes. An increase in the cost to buy silver on the futures market means the most aggressive buyers and sellers alike have to unwind their positions.
Is the silver bubble bursting?
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Precious Metals
bubble, commodities, silver, SLV
Investors aren’t willing to risk a repeat of 2008-2009. But rather than pile into fixed-income assets or take risk off the table, it looks like investors are going for the noncorrelated assets to boost returns while minimizing their market exposure.
It looks to be a pretty good deal: investors get to buy into investments that haven’t always been so profitable, and they get to feel as though their investment is safe.
A bubble of massive proportions
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Hedge Funds, Investing
alternative, bubbles, gold, investments, metals, secondary isnurance, silver
Is it any surprise that gold and silver were rising as they were ignored, and have been falling when they become recommended? Not really.
In fact, the reasons for such a movement are generally pretty simple: institutions ride the wave up, and they exit by selling off to retail trend followers. We’ve seen this phenomenon happen time and time again, and commodities are no different than are any other investments.
Risk is Gone
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Investing, Precious Metals
CVX, GLD, gold, Precious Metals, silver, SLV
Oil has dropped like a rock and is out of the discussion for this article. The market still needs to settle out the speculation and digest much of the speculative supply that is rushing into the markets. Other commodities such as silver are now on the radar with a rapidly expanding money supply and a heavily deflated price per ounce. Read more…
Futures and Commodities, Investing
ETF, silver
Commodities have been pounded over the last few months. The ride up was attributed to inflation, and now that they’re falling off a cliff there is nothing fundamental to propel such a move. Today the commodities market is rallying a bit on lower oil supplies and the metals are coming back from their lows. If anything, the commodities market should be in a complete bull market run due to their resilience to inflation. Read more…
Futures and Commodities, Investing
silver
The recent pullback in commodities such as gold, silver and oil really hurt the industries share prices. Gold stocks were down the most just this last week after metals prices lost more than 10%. Silver was down from its highs to 16.85 an ounce, which I believe to be the cheapest we’re going to see for a long while. Read more…
Stocks
gold, oil, silver
After its sharp run up from $7 per share since January, there is still a lot of potential in this high price gold and silver mining company. I took the time to analyze the 2006 annual reports and found that Gammon is a great investment even as the stock nears $10 and the company is just now turning profitable. Read more…
Stocks
gold, GRS, silver
The prices of the metals are moving up just as fast as the prices of oil. Here is a metal round-up of the current prices and where they are expected to go. Read more…
Futures and Commodities
copper, gold, silver
