February 4, 2012

Why should you buy gold mining stocks rather than gold bullion?

Gold has always held a very important position in matters of finance and a nation’s economic well-being. Gold has always been considered an asset. Women from centuries have held on to their jewelry and passed on their asset and the related wisdom to generations. Gold has been used as currency, remains a financial asset for [...]

Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (AEM)

A great way to get into the precious metals craze going on right now is to look towards mining and producing companies dealing with precious metals such as gold. One of those gold mining stocks is Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) located out of Toronto, ON. At the time of this writing AEM was trading at [...]

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 [...]