I haven’t looked at this in awhile: search term popularity according to Google.
Of course, a lot of the searches are for meDals, not meTals, especially during the Olympics. Still, gold is more popular lately, by about 20%:
Silver is the lagging black line with the price scale on the left.
Here’s a 3-year daily chart showing that even when the U.S. dollar went up temporarily, the gold kept creeping higher. It’s in a bull market, you see.
And check out the lines I drew. Price is in an uptrending channel, and has room to run.
I won’t be making any claims as to the extent of the up move in precious metals. Just watching the currency policies in the U.S. and reserve the right to change my opinion at any time.
In the chart: $USD US Dollar index, GLD gold ETF. Black line is GLD.
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The price of gold over the past 8.5 years, compared to the first 8.5 years of the Nasdaq and housing bubbles.
A. The average cost of replacing and producing an ounce of gold rose to $428/oz in 2005, a ten-year high, according to Metals Economics Group, based on a study of 18 major gold producing companies. However, costs vary widely between companies and the mines themselves. – World Gold Council
I read elsewhere that the current production cost is $600-700/oz on average.
Interesting chart, S&P 500 versus Gold spot price.
In terms of gold, S&P is at Fall 2008 levels!
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And here’s the same relationship but with Gold in terms of S&P:
