Gold Investment News

What are the best sources of gold investment news?

First of all, most people investing in gold and silver tend to spend too much time on short-term fluctuations in the market. In the Internet age the investment community is inundated with the latest rumors and innuendo. Unfortunately, what this means is that most gold investors will sell when there is a market panic and rumors of central bank gold selling in the same way investors will buy furiously on the latest rumors that the Chinese are dumping US dollars.

It is usually far more prudent to only focus on gold investment news on a monthly basis. They are usually only two or three headlines per month that are worth paying attention to. Only professional traders need to have a Bloomberg terminal and follow the gold markets in Asia.

There are a handful of good free sources of gold investment news on the Internet. First of all, one can use KitcoCasey.com for a summary of the headlines affecting the gold markets. This website also has a lot of historical charts for all the precious metals that is useful. I don’t recommend that you read each headline that comes across the wire as most of it is irrelevant. Nonetheless if you are gold investment news junkie this site compiles all of the headlines that are moving the gold market.

Another source of gold investment news is to listen to the podcast at Kingworldnews.com. Eric King often interviews gold portfolio managers and executives from various gold investment companies. Some of commentators are gold bugs who are always bearish on the economy and bullish on the precious metals markets. Some of his guests also have a little bit of the conspiracy undertone and often highlight the theory that the price of silver has been manipulated by various banks.

The last source of gold investment news would probably be financialsense.com. Over the last decade this website has grown from a small portal of investment information to cover all of the commodity markets in depth. The website has a newshour podcast that features gold portfolio managers, mining executives and some of the better newsletter writers in the industry. One of the nice things about this website is that they do not promote any gold stocks in particular. During the interviews they always refrain from mentioning any gold stocks in particular. This adds a layer of legitimacy as you know the the website is more of an information portal and they are not simply pumping small Gold stocks.

 

 


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