Gold offers double-edged shine
It was Goldman Sachs who famously predicted oil prices to reach $200 a barrel last year, but there are a school of bullish investors who forecast a substantial rally in gold. Take Gold and Energy...
View ArticleCorrelation Between Oil and Equities Markets
Oil prices have been trading in an unusually strong positive correlation with equities markets over the past few months on hopes that signs of an economic recovery could mean a boost for energy...
View ArticleGold to go
Automatic teller machines (ATMs) -- 500 of them -- dispensing pieces of gold will be available around Germany, Switzerland and Austria by the end of this year. That at least is the plan of German...
View ArticleRunning out of resources
Oil prices are more than double the December-February troughs and commodity prices generally are going up as the market cheers signs of an economic recovery. Jeremy Grantham, chairman of U.S.-based...
View ArticleThere’s oil in them thar wealth funds
Some interesting new data on sovereign wealth funds from State Street Global Advisors, a huge fund firm that does a lot of business with them. Most interesting, perhaps, is that the vast majority of...
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