All aboard the gold express

Is gold the trade of the decade? The yellow metal has soared 40% this year in US dollar terms, making more than 30 successive record highs along the way. It has gained 135% since January 2020, outstri

Issue of the week: the great gold run ...

Precious metal is already up over 40% this year but some think the momentum can be maintained

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

I have long been keen on gold for my own portfolio (at MoneyWeek we like to put our money where our mouth is), but my first investment in the yellow metal was not a success. At the age of seven I was

Nothing can stop silver, it seems. Not even the $50-an-ounce mark. The price of $50/oz is the all-time high for silver. It reached that level in 1980, then again in 2011, but it’s never been able to g