Mr. Zimmerman and Utimco aren't gold bugs who shun other markets.
Fourth, it's still entirely possible that neither Sprint nor Palm know the exact date -- we're guessing the firmware still hasn't gone gold, and until it has, they can't be putting an immutable stake in the ground.
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We won't win gold every day but nor is the country on the brink of a social abyss.
For this reason, if the goal is to truly "invest, " I don't believe gold belongs in an average investor's portfolio.
Asada might have better springs, but even she can't match Gold's ferocity.
It hadn't won gold in the sport since it started competing in the Olympics as an independent country following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
"You don't win that gold bar, then it wasn't successful, " Johnson said.
If you aren't an exquisite timer, or very lucky, gold isn't a great place to aim your money.
Like Louise, people had heard of me but they didn't quite expect a gold medal.
Despite recent strength, don't expect Newmont or gold futures to vault to new highs immediately, Hesler says.
T-Bills, gold, foreign stocks and domestic stocks all produced a positive real return in two of the three periods.
He said things that were completely out of order, that you couldn't win an Olympic gold medal with cheating.
He is red-faced and aneurysm-popping, tweaked at having put his entire net worth into gold and T bills over the past ten years.
Actually, Buttonwood can't help feeling, gold's history counts against it.
"Now our focus is on the Olympics as Pakistan hasn't won an Olympic gold for quite some time and this team has the ability to win a gold in London, " said Ashraf.
Unlike days of old, Washington doesn't need piles of gold, nor does the government need to promise to exchange gold at a fixed rate for dollars, as it did under the traditional gold standard.
If I find a new way of taking gold and making earrings out of it, that doesn't entitle me to a patent on gold.
"I was praying there was still a chance, but I didn't make my vault, ' she said, "and a gold medal vaulter doesn't deserve to fall.
Gold can't be measured in the same way as other financial assets, analysts point out.
Half the states, including Illinois, Georgia and Michigan, don't collect sales tax on gold bars or coins.
Russia, which is underperforming just as it did at the Winter Games in Vancouver, probably can't catch Britain in the gold medal race.
In the end, however, all the chanting and clapping and unison movement didn't result in a second gold medal in tennis for Great Britain.
But the revenue from Angola's black gold won't last forever.
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"I can't wait to see my gold postbox, " said Applegate.
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"Gold doesn't produce any income or have a yield, and you have to pay to store it, so people are still suspicious of it, " said John Griswold, executive director of Commonfund Institute.
The move, however, didn't reflect a souring on gold, according to people close to the firm, which in the past has used a variety of investments and derivatives to buy and sell gold.
"We rolled them up and dipped them in syrup, " said Harder, who hired Watson and Manson to do some work -- even thought he says he didn't trust them around his gold mine.
"We don't want to be in gold ahead of the normalization" of rates, Mr. Arbess says, though he may come back into gold at a later date as a hedge against inflation as the Fed sells some of the bonds it has purchased.
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