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• With Paulson and Soros Buying Gold, Should You?

  By Jay Wei - August 30, 2012 | Tickers: IAU, DGL, GLD

  If you had bought gold around 2008 and 2009, when it was trading at about $800 - a new high at the time - as the recession was causing all other assets but Treasuries to drop in value, you would have doubled your investments today with gold hovering above $1,600. From 2001, around the time of the last U.S. recession, till 2011, gold has not posted a loss in a more »

• Tracking the Gold Funds

  By Brad Hessel - January 6, 2012 | Tickers: DGL, GLL, GLD, PHYS

  If you are in the market for a paper investment in gold, there are several factors you may want to take into account in choosing among the many available investment vehicles: fund expense ratio, premium over the NAV, tax issues, who holds the physical gold underlying the fund, who audits those holdings, where they are located, and the potential for convertability of your shares in to physical gold, to name more »