Over the past few weeks the world has been focused on Gold as world class athletes compete at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. These athletes have dedicated their lives towards the dream of standing ...

... proved to add more fear and negative returns by losing another -7.18%. So…was anything going well? You bet… Gold climbed to $1,750 an ounce in August of 2011. The shiny yellow metal, historically considered ...

... s voyage hold for us (at least for the balance of 2011)? I can tell you that it won't include Gold. I am not bashing gold bugs nor saying that it won't climb to new highs. As of this writing it will go hi ...

“Should we be buying some gold now?” I only wish that I had a dollar for each time I answered this question over the last month or so. I certainly don’t want to minimize the fact that gold has been on ...

... Four…  Bonds and Alternatives One golden rule of thumb that we hold is to “never completely abandon an asset class”. This area of our bracket speaks to both sides of that coin! With regard to Bonds ...

... nets from this region and marches on to the Final Four. Bonds & Alternatives Key match-ups and seeds: #7 SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) vs. #4 Vanguard REIT Index Fund (VNQ) This match-up features two “alternative” ...

... In particular, we talked about Gold (GLD) as it’s been oversold and in a downward trend since mid-2011. Gold (and some other precious metals) finally had a positive month and even kept pace with a hot ...

... “sale”. Trim back REITs per your allocation as they have clearly risen far beyond expectation. We believe you should buy back in where there is some value. Take a look at gold (GLD) as an example for an ...

... Managed Futures) 280 shares @ $35.71 (~$10k total) 9/23/14:       Added to our position of GLD (SPDR Gold Trust) 200 shares @ $117.56 (~$23k total) 9/25/14:       Added to our position of VB (Vanguard ...

...  into several different divisions: Aluminum, Copper, Diamonds, Minerals, Energy and Iron Ore. The Iron Ore division has historically been among the top revenue producing groups for the company. Goldma ...

...  2/26/14:        Some of those proceeds were reallocated into Gold. WHAT?!? Gold? Isn’t that something we’ve avoided for years? Yes indeed…and if you’re curious what we said about gold when it was at ...

... for Goldman Sachs in 1984. During Cramer’s tenure of his hedge fund (1988 to 2000) he only had one year of negative returns and that was in 1998. Pretty impressive…right? We’ll touch more on performance ...

... a particular brand.  How often have you heard that a product has a “Gold Star Rating” or is recommended by Consumer Reports?  It should be no surprise that the same applies when it comes to the Financial ...

... 25% towards Stocks, 25% in Cash, 25% in Gold, and 25% in long-term Treasury bonds. This strategy has grabbed quite a few eyeballs over the years and perhaps rightly so. The premise of the strategy is ...

... breaking records in the process, the average investor is not seeing the same results in their accounts. In a recent report published by Goldman Sachs, nearly two thirds of the actively managed mutual funds ...

... was always associated with a play on Gold, Silver, and Copper. (those make up over 50% of their holdings). That has begun to change, however, with expected economic growth of seven percent. Peru is one ...

... s, argued that they looked a lot more appealing to him than gold or bonds. But can you make a direct mathematical comparison between the earnings yield on stocks and the yield on bonds, as the Fed mod ...

... those times where being in the best boat will benefit the investor better regardless if the overall tide is rising or falling. #6 CVS Caremark (CVS) vs #12 Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX) This is a true dogfight ...

... he bear market will remain in force, signaling stocks are headed lower. The gold price has also been declining, along with stocks and commodities, since hitting its record high in September. And while g ...

Stocks posted a severe drop today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 4.3% and the Nasdaq crumbling over 5%. By the end of the day there were few places left to hide. Gold, silver, crude and ...