Low real interest rates push investors out of safer Treasuries, forcing them on the hunt for return (year-to-date, gold is up 22.4%).
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Few 2012 Olympic hopefuls have received more attention this year than Janet Evans, the long-retired 40-year-old swimming gold medalist who is attempting a comeback in the 400- and 800-meter events.
Perhaps some day employers will be giving 65-year-olds a gold watch when they join the company.
Newmont reported a year-on-year decline in gold and copper production, although the company said it is on track to meet its targets for 2011.
But only a desperate lunge earned the 21-year-old from Llanelli gold ahead of Frenchman Fadil Bellaabouss, who was given the same time on Saturday.
The 18-year-old gymnast won gold on the balance beam for the United States at the Beijing Games in 2008, alongside three more silver medals, installing herself as a poster child of US sporting success and garnering a host of accolades, as much for her likeable personality as her achievements.
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The 28-year-old judoka explains why winning a gold medal would mean everything to him -- and his father.
The 51-year-old captured England's third gold medal in the Games with a 15-0 triumph, following the success of the men and women's fours teams.
The 23-year-old, who pipped team-mate Nicola Sanders to the gold medal in Osaka, also received a trophy for the best performance in 2007 in a GB vest.
Mantek was pleased with the results when he used the Reiss system at the 2008 Beijing Games, where Steiner, a 29-year-old, 320-pound super-heavyweight, won Olympic gold after taking silver at the European championships.
Missy Franklin, the 17-year-old swimmer from Colorado, scored more gold for America with a gutsy performance in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night just 14 minutes after she qualified for the finals of the 200-meter freestyle.
This is a 5-year chart of gold with its 50- and 200-day moving averages.
Major names in the sector including Newmont Mines, Barrick Gold, and Goldcorp, are all down between 15% and 25% year-to-date, while the GLD gold ETF is up about 4%.
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Barrick reported fourth-quarter and full-year gold production of 2.02 million and 7.42 million ounces, respectively.
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The result gave German 34-year-old Jens Fiedler the third gold medal of his Olympic career.
Halsall finished second in the women's 50m freestyle as Australian 15-year-old Yolane Kukla narrowly won gold.
The 38-year-old Romanian picked up the gold in Beijing but has never finished the London Marathon higher than the third place she gained in 2007.
After waiting for about 40 minutes at a Ginza gold shop, Akemi Nakamura, a 50-year-old mother of two, sold gold accessories that she bought 20 years ago.
The company announced last month that full-year 2012 output was 105, 050 gold-equivalent ounces, with production in 2013 forecast to grow by 24% to 130, 000 gold-equivalent ounces.
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The 21-year-old Magnussen will look for personal redemption by contending for a gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle, though his disappointment thus far left him sleepless last night.
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McColgan came to the public's attention as 22-year-old Liz Lynch when she took gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
Reports had suggested a foot injury would prevent the 24-year-old adding to the world heptathlon gold medal she won in Berlin last year.
When 21-year-old Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold in the 100 meters on Saturday in world record time, he didn't even look winded.
The Sochi hashtag is a reference to next February's Winter Olympics in Russia, where the 28-year-old hopes to defend her downhill gold from Vancouver 2010.
It had to be agony for the 30-year-old Swiss, who wanted this gold medal just as much, but Federer is a champion with a sense of history, and he understood the significance of what had happened here, at his expense.
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Meanwhile, Williams was in vintage form in 2012 as the 31-year-old tasted Olympic singles gold for the first time in addition to taking her grand slam collection to 15 titles, following this year's triumphs at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
This contradicts that 11-year-high inflation report, but remember: Gold is a leading indicator, the report a lagging one.
Clancy is less concerned by the reappearance of 40-year-old former sprint world champion and Olympic gold medallist Jason Queally, who has returned to the track.
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In the sprint events, 19-year-old UWIC student Andrew Watkins triumphed in the 200m, while London-based Philip Doorgachurn won gold in the 100m.
At the start of the season the 24-year-old was chosen for Great Britain's flagship crew - with the target a third successive Olympic gold in the category to continue the legacy of the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent.
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