Further monetary easing also helps gold since it adds to worries about inflation whenever an economic recovery takes hold, plus it means a low so-called opportunity cost, or the loss of interest earnings that investors might have gotten instead by holding yield-bearing assets.
In order to understand the full picture of the risks you are taking, you must remember to ask yourself whether you are bearing unacknowledged leverage in any favored financial assets.
The net interest income it earns on these investment is the difference between the interest revenue on interest-earning assets and the interest expense incurred on interest-bearing liabilities.