a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SliFWLKrl0I/AAAAAAAAB-s/qlz94y4W300/s1600-h/gold+bullions.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 158px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/SliFWLKrl0I/AAAAAAAAB-s/qlz94y4W300/s200/gold+bullions.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357178372758411074″ border=”0″ //abr /Gold is of these assets which are mostly used for hedging against falling equities but also used as a safe heaven for political, economic or other kind of crisis. This has been seen during current financial crisis and global economic recession. The gold prices topped all time high $1000 this March when stocks found their bottom. The bottom at least for now.br /br /There are several ways how to invest to gold. One of the possible investment is in physical gold ownership. The gold can be purchase as bullion bars, coins or as a numismatic coins.br /br /Investment without interest in physical ownership are based and on exchange traded products. Here is the list of the most liquid Gold ETFs (exchange traded funds):br /br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”SPDR Equity Gold (GLD)/span – Fund tracking performance of gold bullion prices.br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX)/span – Fund follows performance of AMEX Gold Miners index. ADRs with biggest share included in this index are Barrick Gold (ABX), Goldcorp Inc (GG) and Newmont Mining (NEM).br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”iShares COMEX Gold (IAU)/span – In fact the same structure like GLD. Also with the same performance.br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”PowerShares DB Gold Double Long ETN (DGP)/span – This ETN reflects double performance of Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity index. Keep in mind a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/05/counter-party-risk-with-etns.html” target=”_blank”difference between ETF and ETF/a.br /span style=”font-weight: bold;”ProShares Ultra Gold (UGL)/span – Double performance of gold bullion prices.br /br /Except of ETFs you can use span style=”font-weight: bold;”gold futures/span or other derivatives for your investing to gold. It is the riskiest asset you can use. With ETF you can get usually up to 3 times leverage investment where with futures there is no limitation. On the other side there is bigger potential return on your investment.br /br /For safer play with span style=”font-weight: bold;”mutual funds/span I list here the biggest funds underlying gold assets.br /a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://www.preciousmetalinvestment.com/a-list-of-us-gold-precious-metal-mutual-funds/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”List of precious metal (gold) mutual funds/abr /a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P143352.asp” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”The best ways to buy gold from MSN – precious metal mutual funds /abr /br /On top of that there are other possibility a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/3530663/Ten-ways-to-invest-in-gold.html” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”how to invest in gold/a like buying jewelery, gold certificates, shares of gold miners or other gold trading companies and so on.br /br /On latest gold trading analysis like a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://www.ino.com/info/384/CD3103/amp;dp=0amp;l=0amp;campaignid=3″ target=”_blank”"Energy Fields…and Gold?”/a you can sign up right a style=”font-weight: bold;” href=”http://www.ino.com/info/159/CD3103/amp;dp=0amp;l=0amp;campaignid=8″ target=”_blank”here/a.div class=”blogger-post-footer”http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xmlimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6675237082283386719-3784458398893145515?l=stockweb.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
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