What Is An Option?
An Option is a contract giving the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying asset (a stock or index) at a specific price on or before a certain date (listed options are all for 100 shares of the particular underlying asset.) An Option is a security, just like a stock or bond, and constitutes a binding contract with strictly defined terms and properties.
What are Investment Trusts, Mutual Funds and Unit Trusts?
An Investment Trust is a company with a stock exchange quote that invests its shareholders money in a portfolio of shares in other companies. In effect they are collective investment funds with a fixed capital and a fixed number of issued shares that are traded on a stock exchange. As they have a fixed capital they are known as ´closed end´ trusts to distinguish them from Mutual Funds/Unit Trusts.
Gold
Despite the slaughter on Wall Street this week as reality took center stage, spot... [Read more ...]
In the second week of January spot gold traded at a high of just over $1160 an ounce.... [Read more ...]
Rumours and facts combined caused gold to leap to a record high of $1043.50 an ounce... [Read more ...]
Read More Posts From This CategorySilver
The fall in gold and silver due in the main to the strengthening dollar and weakening... [Read more ...]
Much has been written about silver in the last few days that if only half factual... [Read more ...]
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Read More Posts From This CategoryPlatinum Group Metals
Our reservations concerning the Platinum price became firmer as last week progressed. Given that US investors in general have had the opportunity to play the platinum market in earnest for the first time, it is not surprising that since the launch of the platinum ETF (PPLT-NYSE) the week before last met with such enthusiastic buying. [Read more ...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({... [Read more ...]
Since the launch the week before last, of the new Platinum ETF (PHPT) trading on the NY exchange, the precious metal has seen some very large gains. This ETF operates along similar lines to the gold (GLD) & silver (SLV) ETFs traded in the US where they hold physical metal in vaults to the approx value of the money invested in each fund. [Read more... [Read more ...]
The first year of the new decade is likely to set the scene that could last until 2013 maybe longer. Investors may face either the prospect of a period of deflation, possibly setting in by the end of the first quarter of the new year, followed eventually by considerable inflation. The alternative is steadily increasing inflation for as long as the... [Read more ...]
Did You Know? that Rhodium is historically circa six times more expensive than Gold Rhodium is one of a group of metals known as Noble Metals. Most are Precious Metals and all are resistant to corrosion and oxidation. Other examples are Gold Platinum and Silver. Rhodium has a very high melting point, is corrosion resistant and is a good electrical conductor. These... [Read more ...]
Start by going to www.kitco.com, www.minormetals.com, and www.thebulliondesk.com to check out the latest prices and news on these metals . The first point you should notice is that all the quotes, with the exception of titanium, have significantly high spreads. In some cases you will be looking at having to see a rise of over 10% before you move into... [Read more ...]
Read More Posts From This CategoryTitanium
From toothbrushes to airframes, jet engines to spectacles golf clubs, to replacement joints in humans, and not to forget its growing use in fashionable jewelry, new uses for titanium seem to constantly hit the headlines. Despite the versatility of this... [Read more ...]
Titanium is arguably the most interesting and versatile of all metals. It is the ninth most plentiful element in the Earths’ crust and the fifth most common metal. Titanium is a hard silvery colored, non-magnetic, corrosion resistant, lightweight and... [Read more ...]
There are reports that an Italian company, Italcementia has developed a cement enhanced with titanium oxide that can neutralize some harmful pollutants when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light. [Read more ...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Cement... [Read more ...]
Read More Posts From This CategoryLatest news
A Great Opportunity To Top Up On Silver & Gold
The stock market has taken a substantial fall in the last two days. The question is whether this is due to the dawning realization by investors that they have been living in a fantasy world. [Read more ...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Great Opportunity To Top Up On Silver & Gold", url: "http://www.preciousmetalinvestment.com/news/top-up-on-silver-gold/"... [Read more ...]
Nuclear Safety First
Following our recent bullish thoughts on the future for nuclear energy, those more conservative investors who have researched the sector may prefer to spread their financial commitment across the industry rather than place their faith in one or more individual companies. With nuclear safety investing first in mind, the Market Vectors Nuclear Energy... [Read more ...]
Nuclear Power | Uranium Stocks Set To Soar
This is short and to the point! Solar, wind and every other so called clean energy system so far developed or on the ‘to do’ list will not ‘cut the mustard’ in making up the world wide electrical power shortfall as carbon fuels are either phased out for political reasons or simply as resources become scarcer. [Read more ...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({... [Read more ...]
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