Recent Performance Review Of Gold And 5 Large Cap Gold Miners
By Zvi Bar:Gold is considered by many to both a potential stock market and currency hedge, pointing to global money printing and expanding sovereign debt loads as reasons for individuals to maintain personal reserves. Another option some gold bugs may consider is investing in gold miners.At the moment, several large-cap miners provide a dividend that beats the average interest rate available on a savings account, and possibly even a 5-year CD. Of course, many of those dividends only became so competitive due to declining share prices over the last few quarters.Over the last several years, gold appreciated to a substantially greater degree than did the majority of gold miners. Much of the disconnect between gold and gold producers is related to broad expectations that gold would not maintain its recent price range. Moreover, throughout 2011 and so far into 2012, the gold miners have consistently underperformed gold when it appreciates,Complete Story »
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