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By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, BIG GOLD We once had an ongoing series in BIG GOLD called, "1001 Reasons to Own Gold." The idea was that there were so many valid reasons to own the metal that I wanted to track and report on them.…

By Vedran Vuk A friend of mine met an interesting real estate investor recently. The guy claimed that he escaped the entire market crash relatively unscathed. At first, I didn’t really believe it, but his strategy made a lot of sense. I…

Bob Janjuah, co-head of cross-asset allocation strategy at Nomura International Plc, discusses the outlook for the global economy. Janjuah, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also talks about…

(Chris Wood filling in for David Galland) Dear Reader, Stock buybacks have been in the news a lot lately. Sitting on piles of cash and too nervous to invest in new workers or plant and equipment, many companies have started to deploy…

Here's an interesting note on quantitative easing and asset allocation from Andy Lees of UBS.  He says: The attached chart gives a simple overlay of the front month 10 year US Treasury future vs the front month S&P future. As…

by Vedran Vuk Most regular market-watchers peek at the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 daily, but there’s another important index to follow regularly, the VIX (which is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options…

I am an affiliate of INO, a website which is geared to individual investors. I haven't posted much from their site here but I thought their latest video on gold was interesting so I'll say a few words about it. (disclosure: as an affiliate…

How to value gold is an age old frustration. As every schoolboy knows, it yields nothing and so can’t be valued on cash flows. It has very little industrial use. There is, however, a natural human tendency toward the use of currency so gold…

Source: Diane Fraser of The Gold Report 10/13/2010 Carlsbad is several hundred miles south of Sutter's Mill, but the experts and investors who gathered for Casey Research's recent Gold Summit were just as enthusiastic about the precious…

by David Galland Warming up the digits today, I can’t help but note that gold broke in to new record territory – above $1,380 in the overnight markets. A new record in nominal terms, that is. To top the previous high in inflation-adjusted…