May 18, 2012

ETF Holdings for Gold at All Time High

Gold ETF holdings continue to rise and now sit at an all-time high as investors continue to scramble due to the economy. The SPDR Gold Shares Trust (GLD) has added 10.22 tonnes of gold since last week as gold prices continue to go higher and higher. The all-time high for holdings of the Gold Shares [...]

iShares GLD Closes Above $120

For the past couple of years NYSE:GLD has been on a tear while SLV has been slowly following behind. The rest of the market on the other hand, well you know the story with that, sad sad sad. But the iShares trust GLD has been following right along lock step with gold and the precious [...]

Will Markets Upward Trend Hurt GLD?

The markets have been whacky ever since the troubles with Greece and their more debt then even the countries worth problems have hit the worldwide stage. The Euro is trying to sustain a just better than the dollar level. And oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. But even in all this up [...]

Gold Buying Tips

So gold and other commodities are all the rage right now. Jim Rogers says gold is going to $2000, others say it’ll hit $3000, others still say it is over priced. Who are you to believe? Well you don’t have to believe us, but when we started this blog gold was below $900. That’s right, [...]

Gold Exceeding $1000

That’s right, we’re late on the reporting but gold is over $1000 US dollars for an ounce. Yikes.  Is it too much?  No one really knows, but all those skeptics that spoke out as it traveled down below $900 after coming near these recent highs a while back are eating their words…. Or are they? [...]

GLD streetTRACKS Gold ETF

Recently we discussed the iShares ETF IAU which is a gold trust ETF like the silver trust ETF SLV. Now here’s another one that, if you’re into ETFs, you may be interested in. It’s called streetTRACKS Gold Trust (GLD). Like IAU and SLV, GLD buys and stores gold and allows investors to buy a share [...]

IAU, iShares Golden ETF

If you want to get into gold and you don’t want have gold bullion collecting dust in the corner of your safe deposit box, then an iShares electronically traded fund might be the way to go for you. With iShares IAU ETF you can own a fractional ownership of gold held by the iShares Gold [...]