Eldorado Gold is a gold producing and exploration company with gold assets in Brazil and Turkey.
Freeport will keep investing in brownfield copper and gold assets to lower its cost base.
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Unfortunately, banks and bullion houses do not report their gold liabilities or gold assets.
The deal gives Goldcorp access to Andean's Cerro Negro gold assets in Argentina, which it says has abundant gold and silver.
In their rush to buy gold, and gold denominated assets, investors seem to overlook a number of risks associated with holding gold some outlined in great detail in the prospectus of mutual funds and ETFs that invest in gold.
If gold performs differently than other assets, then including some gold in a portfolio of stocks and bonds should lower volatility, analysts say.
Experts at Capital Economics suggest comparing the price of gold with other assets to see how high it could go.
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You can also opt for gold-backed securities like the SPDR Gold Shares ETF ( GLD), in which assets are backed by physical gold held in trust for shareholders.
Back in the day, gold and other hard assets were often seen as hedges against stocks.
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Gold and other hard assets have, over the last few years, also been influenced.
Any escalation in tensions between the U.S. and North Korea could send investors into safe-haven assets like gold.
Investors are dumping not only financial stocks but dollars, and they're plowing money into hard assets like gold instead.
The crummy report from the BLS on Friday sparked another day of solid gains for risk assets like gold.
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All told, the Schultz portfolio revision would have 11% of the Muchmores' financial assets in gold, commodities or energy plays.
None can say much about where the cost of breakfast goods, gold or productive business assets might go from here.
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The EU debt crisis will remain an underlying bullish factor for safe-haven assets like gold for a long time to come.
Until recently the Federal Reserve owned rather safe assets like gold, short-term Treasury bills and the short-term IOUs of commercial banks.
Combine that with the calmer world geopolitical climate at present, and safe-haven assets like gold are being overlooked by many investors.
Assets under gold ETFs had doubled every year since 2007 until 2012.
She showed me a statement from her accountant of private assets like gold and cash, and flipped through estimated values of some portfolio companies.
Newmont Mining is primarily a gold producer with significant assets or operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Canada, New Zealand and Mexico.
Its only assets are gold, an American military base, and sheep.
Still, with the U.S. stock indexes rallying and the DJIA setting new all-time highs last week, such continues to curtail investment demand for safe-haven assets like gold.
If the deal with Iamgold goes ahead, Mr Potanin's interest in Gold Fields' international assets, which include mines in a dozen or so countries around the world, would be diluted.
The same volatility and correlation that has caused assets like gold to move in lockstep with stocks, contrary to its nature, will continue into the first half of 2012, said Knapp.
That will remain supportive for safe-haven assets like gold.
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Joel Smolen, hedge fund manager at Axion Capital in San Rafael, says hard assets like gold, silver and equities of mining and metals companies in countries like Australia and Brazil are the places to be following the U.S. credit downgrade.
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Gijsbert Groenewegen, managing partner of Silver Arrow Capital Management, said the news about Germany seeking to protect its banks shows how murky the European debt situation is, which makes investors seek the transparency of hard assets like gold and silver.
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Another major bearish factor for the gold and silver markets in recent weeks has been rallying stock markets worldwide, which shows investor risk appetite is on the upswing at the expense of demand for safe-haven assets like gold and to a lesser degree silver.
Concerns over the debt ceiling debate in the U.S., along with sovereign debt woes in Europe sending peripheral debt to nearly unsustainable levels, have put pressure on risk assets across the board and sent investors fleeing for safe-haven assets like gold and the Swiss franc.
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