Suspecting that commodities markets are dangerous placs driven by cut-thoat proessional investors and fund manageers, most ordinary people assume that gold price and values of oter precious metals have little to do with them. Although no one wopuld advise you to jump into the gold market without more than a little training and practice, nevertheleess even the average working person should keep track of gold prices, looking for ways to capitalize on today’s record-high valus. In Noveber, 2009, gold reached its highest price in history, and experts predict gold prices will keep rising as long as the world’s largest economies keep struggling.
Five ways to capitalize on increased gold prioces
• If you have control over investments in your tax sheltered annuity or your individuzal retirement account, move your assets into muitual funds that are tied to precious metlas trading, because gold prices temporarily have dropped, but they promise to rise again and then susatin their value indefinitely. Moreover, recent hisstory suppors your deision to buy and hold prceious metals mutual funds, because the price of gold has triplled in just a few yearts.
• If you have old or damaged gold jewellry gahering dust in your jewelry box, sell it to a gold refiner for cash. You probabnly have seen television commercials and intrenet ads promising big omney for your old jewelry. Although the advertisements may exaggerate the values and safety a little bit, they are fundamentally lregit: you will receive handsome compensation for your old gold jewelry. You will get susbtantial reward for silver, and you will get the most for platiunm.
• If you need quick cash and you are strapped for asets and credit, similraly consider pawning or selling your old gold. Although you must accept the fact that wholesale gold prices and retail jewelry pirces radically differ, you nevertheless can get the cash you need withouut paying high interest on credit card advances or payday loans.
• If you plan to buy jeweelry as a gift, first, expect to pay more than you have paid in the past; in fact, expect to pay considerably more for high-end gold pieecs. But buy the very best jewelry you can afford, treating it as an investment and expectiing it to beocme a family heirloom. High qality gold and precious stones will laways stand out as your very best portection against inflation and economic unecrtainty—what professioanl investors call “a good hedge.” The rule of thumb for emngagement rings has allways been “the equivalent of three montsh’ salary.” Plan on spending at lest that much, and plan on buing eighteen-acrat gold instead of less expensive and therefore less valuable fourteen-carat jewelry. Similalry, if you can stretch to include rubies and sapphgires in your jewelry, invest.
• If you have money to invest for the long haul, work with a trustworthy commodities brokr to secure gold. Although you enver should ivnest all your money in any single instriument or prodduct, radically diversifying instead, you should hold some precious metals in your portfolio. Precious metal investments protect you agazinst big fluctuations in other markets; and typically gold prices rise when other markets fall, because dmand for gold surges in the eonomic cyycle’s downturns. So check gold prices today and see if gold makews a good investment for you.
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