by David Galland, Partner, Casey Research

The latest data on global gold trends, Q2 2010, just popped into my email box from the World Gold Council. 

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I have been speaking and writing about gold's appeal in a deflationary environment - this is a concept that opposes the conventional opinion that the gold price will not rise without inflation.

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Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report 

The Gold Report: James, in a recent issue of the Midas Letter you said, "The world, according to gold, is in an absolute mess." We're not in a gold price mania, so how can the world be in an "absolute mess?"

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by Frank Holmes

Global economic conditions are now favorable for gold as a safe-haven investment. The U.S., Western Europe and Japan are close to buckling under the weight of their sovereign debt loads, government budget deficits remain large and persistent and, as a result, faith in major paper currencies is low.

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by Jeff Clark, Senior Editor
Casey's Gold & Resource Report

While we’re convinced gold and gold stocks are destined for much higher levels, buying when prices are low can mean the difference between a double or triple and a ten-bagger... a week in Malibu vs. a week in Milan.
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By MarcDavis,
www.Top40GoldStocks.com 
and www.BNWnews.ca
In a jittery stock market, the only gold stocks that investors should own are for companies that really do have the goods. This is the consensus view among various gold investment industry commentators and analysts.
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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca

Latin America represents the world’s last great mineral frontier for prolific gold discoveries due to its vast land mass and its geologically fertile terrain. This is proving to be a godsend for some lucky investors, while others have seen their luck turn to shattered dreams.  
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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca

The inexorable onset of accelerating inflation, matched with a global decline in gold production, will underpin high-flying gold prices for years to come. So says John Embry, a world-renowned long-time gold advocate and the chief investment strategist at Toronto-based Sprott Asset Management, which runs the Sprott Gold and Precious Metals Fund.

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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca

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By Marc Davis,BNWnews.ca

As the gold market continues its lustrous trend, the corporate elbowing and shoving to get at the richest buried treasures is getting increasingly cutthroat. A prime example involves northern Chile’s clutch of mostly prolifically sized gold/copper deposits.

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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca

Central banks – the long-time nemesis of the gold sector – are doing an about-face to become its biggest supporters. And this quantum shift promises to gather momentum in 2010 with the prospect of a new era of net buying continuing to fuel robust demand for bullion.

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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden

Happy New Year. The year is drawing to a close. And what a year it’s been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade.

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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca

With bullion prices at all-time highs and world-class gold discoveries becoming ever more elusive, the investment industry is gambling increasingly sizeable sums of money on major mines-in-the-making. A recent example of this new trend involves Exeter Resource Corporation (TSX.V: XRC) (NYSE-A: XRA). Specifically, a handful of top-tier investment banks snapped up the high-flying mining junior’s CDN $57.5 million equity financing last month in less than 24 hours.
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by Marc Davis, BNWNews.ca

As the world’s key gold producing nations struggle mostly in vain to replenish dwindling below-ground supplies, Mexico is bucking the trend in a big way.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News

Gold prices will surge to unprecedented new highs in the event of a military showdown between Western powers and Iran. This is the consensus among various leading investment industry forecasters.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News

Only a tiny handful of huge gold discoveries have been made worldwide in the last decade, which experts say is because virtually all the juiciest low-hanging fruit has been picked some time ago. And this new reality promises to help edge bullion prices increasingly higher.
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By The Economist

A weak dollar explains gold’s rise.

Gold fascinates investors. The latest surge in bullion—nominal prices this week topped $1,050 an ounce, a record—has generated headlines that would not have been seen if nickel had reached a new peak.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News

Record high gold prices are here to stay, according to several of the world’s most prominent gold mining industry executives.
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By Marc Davis, BNW News

Gold will soon become the next global asset bubble now that pivotal global economic events are finally converging to propel its ascent into record territory. This is the most recent consensus shared by many key business leaders who have the most at stake.
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by Frank Holmes

We’re heading into September next week, so it’s a good time to revisit the historic seasonality of gold and gold stocks.

Over the past four decades, September has been the best time for gold in terms of its month-over-month price appreciation. You can see this on the chart below – in a typical year, the price of gold in September rises 2.5 percent above its August price.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden

The commodity market is bub­bling. Whether it be sugar reaching a three year high, copper and other base metals reaching almost one year highs, or oil and gold rising further. The markets are looking good.
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by Mary Anne & Pamela Aden

It’s been a wild ride this past year, but the markets are now on the upswing. Following a rough year where most of the markets dropped sharply, then stayed dull for a while, they’re finally headed higher. Most important, these are significant rises.
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The Gold Report: Why do you suppose gold hasn't cracked that $1,000 barrier yet?
Adrian Day: A lot of people are asking why gold hasn't performed better. Frankly, a lot of that goes to a widespread misunderstanding of gold's role. It is not meant as a huge capital gain generator. It's meant as an asset preserver; it's meant as insurance.
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