Sunday, March 16, 2008

A Golden Play, Is Gold ready to jump... Again?

In light of all the recent market news, economic outlook, weakness in the dollar and now troubles in the African Mines w/ power is looks like the best time to buy gold.  Current analyst are pointing to an 1100/oz price in the next few months.  Below are some top performing ETFs and Trusts.  Two almost mirror each other and have equal expense ratios that are extremely low at .4% providing some options, mainly who you like better.  Both have a long-term positive history and invest directly in Gold Bullion… Nothing else.

 

Rankings from the Street:

 

Name                                                             Peer Rank     Ticker       YTD         1 Year  3 Year  Expense Ratio

 

Market Vectors TR Gold Miners                          7              GDX        7.24         27.04       0             0.55

Central Fund of Canada                                       6              CEF         13.67       28.53      33.03      0.43

Gabelli Global Gold Nat Res&Income                 8              GGN       -4.56        22.22       0              1.17

iShares Silver Trust                                               10            SLV         13.08       24.09       0              0.5

Central Gold-Trust                                                9              GTU        14.85       40.52       21.48       0.34

PowerShares DB Silver Fund                               5              DBS         12.1         21.64       0              0.54

PowerShares DB Precious Metals Fund             2              DBP         8.17         32.3         0             0.79

PowerShares DB Gold Fund                                1              DGL        7.5           35.53       0              0.54

iShares COMEX Gold Trust                             4              IAU         8.31        38.77      29.1        0.4

streetTRACKS Gold Shares ETF                        3              GLD        8.36         39            29.16       0.4

 

Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) is a pure ETF holding several Gold Mines (no pun intended) and manufactures that have almost all returned over 25% YTD.  Hence the number 1 position from the street.  That coupled with a .55% expense ratio makes it a great opportunity as well.

 

So what about Silver, Copper and platinum???  Aren’t people stealing copper out of everything they can to re-sell?  Silver has been climbing as well.  Platinum which is Gold on steroids is expected to be trading at 2500/oz in the next month as well.  Something to look into...

 

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