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Gold Liquidation Now Accelerating
Robert Wagner • Wed, May 22 • 9 Comments
Physical Gold Market Feeding Off Paper Market Selling
Hard Assets Investor • Tue, May 21 • 4 Comments
Gold Bears Emerging From Hibernation
Robert Wagner • Mon, May 20 • 17 Comments
Gold And Gold Stocks: Positioning And Sentiment
Pater Tenebrarum • Mon, May 20
Gold: A Little Lower, And Then A Rally
Avi Gilburt • Sun, May 19 • 54 Comments
Digging Into The First Quarter Gold Demand Report
Vladimir Zernov • Fri, May 17 • 9 Comments
The Sell-Off In Gold Has Become Plain Silly
Dave Kranzler • Fri, May 17 • 105 Comments
Orders For Gold Go Unfilled In Asia
Russ Winter • Thu, May 16 • 27 Comments
4 Reasons I'm Buying Gold Today
Ian Wyatt • Tue, May 14 • 16 Comments
Gold: New York Passé, China The Price-Setter
Patrick MontesDeOca • Tue, May 14 • 1 Comment
It's Still Fool's Gold For A While Yet
Sy Harding • Sun, May 12 • 28 Comments
Gold: Watch Out For Bull Trap Set Up
Avi Gilburt • Sun, May 12 • 10 Comments
Gold ETF Outflows Persist After Fed
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
Why The Gold Rebound Should Continue
Gary Bourgeault • Thu, May 2 • 3 Comments
Eric Sprott's Gold Analysis Deconstructed: What The Gold Bulls Still Don't Get
Mike Williams • Thu, May 2 • 218 Comments
Physical Gold Demand Continues To Pick Up
Jeff Clark • Tue, Apr 30 • 17 Comments
Currencies, Precious Metals And A Dark Future: Sprott's Rick Rule Weighs In
Patrick MontesDeOca • Sun, Apr 28 • 2 Comments
Gold's Nice Bounce Won't Last
Avi Gilburt • Sun, Apr 28 • 62 Comments
Why The 'Gold Bull And Equities Bear' Camp Is Far Off Base
Spencer Knight • Fri, Apr 26 • 15 Comments
The 12 Biggest Mistakes The Media Make When Covering Gold Markets
Navellier & Associates • Fri, Apr 26 • 29 Comments

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The Swiss Gold ETF: A Fundamentally Decent Product Once You Get Beyond The Gimmickry
Morningstar • Fri, Sep 21, 2012 • 28 Comments
Gold ETF Investors Call Pullback 'Excessive'
John Spence • Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Gold Down A Quick 5%
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, Aug 24, 2011 • 51 Comments
How Much Is Gold Worth?
Richard Shaw • Tue, Jan 18, 2011 • 59 Comments
ETF Spotlight: ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares
Tom Lydon • Thu, Aug 19, 2010 • 1 Comment
Seriously, The SPDR Gold Trust Isn't a Scam. But PHYS Might Be
IndexUniverse • Fri, May 21, 2010 • 107 Comments
PHYS: Really a CEF
Ron Rowland • Tue, Mar 2, 2010 • 4 Comments
Even Gold Experts Fooled by Bullion ETFs
Jeff Nielson • Fri, Dec 18, 2009 • 32 Comments
The Case for a Swiss Gold ETF
Michael Johnston • Thu, Sep 10, 2009 • 6 Comments

Gold Liquidation Now Accelerating
Robert Wagner • Wed, May 22 • 9 Comments
Physical Gold Market Feeding Off Paper Market Selling
Hard Assets Investor • Tue, May 21 • 4 Comments
Gold Bears Emerging From Hibernation
Robert Wagner • Mon, May 20 • 17 Comments
Gold And Gold Stocks: Positioning And Sentiment
Pater Tenebrarum • Mon, May 20
Gold: A Little Lower, And Then A Rally
Avi Gilburt • Sun, May 19 • 54 Comments
Digging Into The First Quarter Gold Demand Report
Vladimir Zernov • Fri, May 17 • 9 Comments
The Sell-Off In Gold Has Become Plain Silly
Dave Kranzler • Fri, May 17 • 105 Comments
Orders For Gold Go Unfilled In Asia
Russ Winter • Thu, May 16 • 27 Comments
4 Reasons I'm Buying Gold Today
Ian Wyatt • Tue, May 14 • 16 Comments
Gold: New York Passé, China The Price-Setter
Patrick MontesDeOca • Tue, May 14 • 1 Comment
It's Still Fool's Gold For A While Yet
Sy Harding • Sun, May 12 • 28 Comments
Gold: Watch Out For Bull Trap Set Up
Avi Gilburt • Sun, May 12 • 10 Comments
Gold ETF Outflows Persist After Fed
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
Why The Gold Rebound Should Continue
Gary Bourgeault • Thu, May 2 • 3 Comments
Eric Sprott's Gold Analysis Deconstructed: What The Gold Bulls Still Don't Get
Mike Williams • Thu, May 2 • 218 Comments
Physical Gold Demand Continues To Pick Up
Jeff Clark • Tue, Apr 30 • 17 Comments
Currencies, Precious Metals And A Dark Future: Sprott's Rick Rule Weighs In
Patrick MontesDeOca • Sun, Apr 28 • 2 Comments
Gold's Nice Bounce Won't Last
Avi Gilburt • Sun, Apr 28 • 62 Comments
Why The 'Gold Bull And Equities Bear' Camp Is Far Off Base
Spencer Knight • Fri, Apr 26 • 15 Comments
The 12 Biggest Mistakes The Media Make When Covering Gold Markets
Navellier & Associates • Fri, Apr 26 • 29 Comments

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Metals Stocks: Gold ends lower, copper jumps 7% on U.S. jobs data

at MarketWatch.com (May 3, 2013)
Outside the Box: Use gold ETFs to tackle Fed, inflation fears

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 25, 2013)
Palladium's Revving Up Gains

at CNBC.com (Apr 30, 2012)
The Many Ways to Invest in Gold

at CNBC.com (Aug 29, 2011)
Gold Not the Best Bet for the Long Haul: Analyst

at CNBC.com (Jul 20, 2011)
Money Talks: 5 money moves one market timer is making now

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 20, 2011)
Commodities Corner: Gold investing: what to do and how to do it

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 15, 2011)
Robert Powell's Your Portfolio: How to play the global commodities trends

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 30, 2011)
ETF Investing: Investors pull money from gold ETFs

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 20, 2011)
Gold vs Silver

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 12, 2010)
Greenberg: Which Gold ETF Is Bestthe IAU, GLD or SGOL?

at CNBC.com (Dec 7, 2010)
Gold to Fall 25-30% in 18 Months: Stock Picker

at CNBC.com (Nov 17, 2010)
ETF Investing: ETFs mint new bout of metals speculation

at MarketWatch.com (Nov 14, 2010)
Gold: Speculation or second currency?

at MarketWatch.com (Nov 12, 2010)
Weekend Investor: Why gold is a bad investment

at MarketWatch.com (Nov 12, 2010)
Commodities Corner: Gold and silver may start to buckle under pressure

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 15, 2010)
Video: Surging Gold, and the Funds Fueling Its Rise

at MarketWatch.com (Sep 29, 2010)
Video: Sell Strategies For Popular Gold ETFs

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 18, 2010)
Weekend Investor: Bullion buyers bank on gold coins

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 23, 2010)
Gold coins face IRS scrutiny

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 21, 2010)

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SGOL Description

ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (SGOL) is designed to offer investors a simple, cost-efficient and secure way to access the precious metals market. SGOL is intended to provide investors with a return equivalent to movements in the gold spot price less fees.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2:17 PM Up as high as $1,413 following Bernanke's (at the time) perceived dovish testimony this morning, gold (GLD -0.9%) reverses along with stocks. Markets make opinions, and now the focus on Bernanke is he's prepping the markets for tapering. The just-released FOMC minutes push down gold even further, now at $1,357/oz. 1 Comment [Commodities, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 9:16 AM Outflows from gold ETPs of 10.27 metric tons YTD have surpassed the combined inflows of the previous 2 years, according to Bloomberg. One portfolio manager notes the outflows about equal the amount mined, meaning new supply has doubled this year. "The market has a lot of metal to absorb." GLD +1.3% premarket. 6 Comments [Commodities]
Monday, May 20, 12:40 PM This just in. Precious metals (GLD +2.2%), (SLV +2.6%) are sharply higher on the session after a panicky Sunday evening plunge brought both to multi-year lows. Other than dollar weakness (UUP -0.5%) across the board, there's no news in particular - perhaps some satiated bears decided to cover and a trend took hold. 36 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Monday, May 20, 7:07 AM Silver (SLV) plunged to its lowest level in nearly 3 years overnight before a bounce brought it to its current price of $21.60, -3.3%. As with gold, silver ETP holdings have dropped to the lowest levels this year, and speculative short positions are on the rise, according to CFTC data. Gold (GLD) took out its April lows earlier - dropping as low as $1,338. A bounce has brought the metal back to $1,351, -1%. 17 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Friday, May 17, 3:55 PM The bear market in gold (GLD, IAU) has left three closed-end funds trading at abnormally large discounts to NAV, says Morningstar's Cara Esser: GTU, CEF, and PHYS. Likewise, a small selloff in municipal (MUB) paper has left these muni CEFs at attractive values: NXR, MYD, NXP. 2 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Friday, May 17, 11:57 AM "Do you really think risk-averse central bankers are going to try and catch the knife," asks Credit Suisse commodity research chief Ric Deverell about gold. "No" is his answer as this crowd only buys when the price is headed higher. Of reports of heavy physical buying, he's unimpressed, noting investment demand (ETFs) is the gorilla in the gold market. The metal's (GLD -1.6%) within a few dollars of taking out the 26-month low hit in April. 17 Comments [Commodities]
Thursday, May 16, 7:18 AM Precious metals continue to tumble, with gold at $1,374 nearing the panicky lows (about $1,350) seen during April's liquidation. Any excuse will do in a bear market, and filings released yesterday containing data anywhere from 6 weeks to 5 months old showed continuing sales of gold ETPs by names such as Soros and BlackRock. GLD -1.3%, SLV -1.3% premarket. 9 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 15, 11:16 AM Gold (GLD -2.1%), (IAU -2.2%) sinks back below $1,400 as the bounce since mid-April is officially over. At work here, suggests RBC Capital, is the strong stock market. To participate, foreign investors sell gold, buy dollars (UUP is up big in May), and call their stockbrokers. Commerzbank notes gold ETF outflows were another 6 tons yesterday, bringing the total since early April to 230 tons. Silver (SLV -3.1%) tags along. 34 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Sunday, May 12, 5:21 PM Money managers yanked $1.27B out of gold and precious metals last week, bringing the year-to-date drawdown to $20.8B. The largest gold ETF (GLD) is down 13.8% YTD. It largest shareholder, John Paulson, remains bullish on gold; his Gold Fund is down almost 50% this year. (Gold ETFs: GLD, IAU, SGOL, PHYS, AGOL, DGL, UBG, DGP, UGL, DZZ, GLL, DGZ, UGLD, DGLD, GLDI) 7 Comments [Commodities]
Friday, May 10, 7:33 AM The stronger dollar has precious metals resuming their decline in force (or is the decline in precious metals strengthening the dollar), with gold (GLD) off 2.3% and silver (SLV) off 2.2%. Crude oil (USO) pulls back a bit from its recent big rally, -0.9% to $95.53. 106 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Tuesday, May 7, 11:39 AM The bounce in precious metals takes a breather, with gold (GLD) off 1.6% and silver (SLV) off 1.2%. It's more tough news for John Paulson after his gold fund reportedly lost 27% in April, bringing the YTD loss to about 47%. Add David Einhorn to those taking a hit: "We were somewhat surprised by the swift decline," he said on the GLRE earnings call (transcript), especially given the BOJ's joining in "the global monetary printing race." Einhorn sees nothing to change his long-term bullish stance. 9 Comments [Commodities, Financials]
Friday, May 3, 9:56 AM Gold's (GLD) "short-term" tape is damaged, says Ned Davis Research, but the bullish long-term charts and the macro backdrop remain in place. Behind the recent pain is an upturn in real interest rates since the August 2011 gold peak, driven most recently by a "cliff-dive" in inflation expectations. 2 Comments [Commodities]
Tuesday, April 30, 11:01 AM Australia's Perth Mint - which refines nearly all of that nation's gold bullion - has its factory working weekends to keep up with demand. "We haven't seen levels like this since (2008)," says sales chief Ron Currie. "We're being inundated with people buying products," he continues, noting U.S. orders are particularly heavy. GLD -0.25%. 11 Comments [Commodities]
Monday, April 29, 3:33 PM Outflows from gold ETPs have hit a record 159 metric tons so far this month, bringing YTD outflows to 319mt or 12% of holdings at the year's start. As comparison, gold inflows for all of 2012 were 279mt. The largest of gold ETFs, State Street's (STT) SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) has seen outflows of 11% this month to 1,083mt. 21 Comments [Commodities]
Monday, April 29, 11:52 AM Gold's next big move is down, say some technicians, with the current bounce from the mighty selloff 2 weeks ago a low-volume affair that - if anything - reinforces the negative bias, according to Merrill's MacNeil Curry. "There a tremendous amount of overhead supply from the mid-to-low $1,500s," says Larry Berman, expecting a tight range for now, but eventually a price below $1,300. GLD +1.1%. 11 Comments [Commodities]
Monday, April 29, 7:31 AM Precious metals continue their comeback tour, with the dollar (UUP) being lower across the board as good an excuse as any for buying this morning. GLD +1.1%, SLV +1.5% premarket. The greenback is particularly weak vs. the aussie (FXA), +0.6%. Comment! [Commodities, On the Move]

SGOL ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Trust ETF

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