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 ...

“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

More investors are jumping on the Gold Express. In an interview for CNBC, “Bond king” Jeffrey Gundlach said a quarter of the “perfect portfolio” would be in gold and predicts the price will hit $4,000

A few years ago we kept hearing that the average human attention span had dwindled from around 12 seconds to eight, less than the average goldfish’s nine. The statistic rang true to me, given our endl

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