Saturday, September 1, 2007

Glittering Gold: A Rare Opportunity

The terms of gold is higher than it have been in 17 years. And it's likely to travel much higher. Why?

There is a very interesting article in the New House Of York Times that caught my attention. You can read it here…

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/international/24GOLD.html

The article is really about how gold excavation companies are harming the environment. But, as an investor, here are some cardinal points that I believe are of import for the gold market…

The amount of gold that is left to be mined is extremely small and it is coming from the poorest states in the world. 70% of gold in now being mined in poor countries.

To get one troy ounce of gold to do a ring, mineworkers have got to delve up and draw away 30 dozens of rock and scatter it with diluted cyanide.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the cost of cleansing up metallic element ours could attain $54 billion.

According to the World Gold Council, jewellery sales soared to a record $38 billion last year.

Just inch the last year, gold sales are up 11% inch People'S Republic Of China and a humongous 47% in India, a country with stopping point to a billion people who are huge gold consumers.

The United States is the second leading consumer of gold (second to India). The U.S. authorities have 8,134 dozens of gold in reserves. The Federal Soldier Modesty and other major cardinal banks have got an understanding to severely curtail sales from their reserves. This volition function to back up the terms of gold.

Also, sophisticated investors have got got a renewed interest in gold as a hedge against rising prices and a falling U.S. dollar.

So we have a classic demand/supply imbalance that's going to last for years. The long-term cardinals look very advantageous for gold investments.


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