Saturday, 29 October 2011

The Gold Market Is Not In A Bubble

By Jack Wogan


The period during which the price of an asset grows attracting in turn, many investors and buyers is described by economists as an asset price bubble. Stable commodities are the ones that attract more buyers during periods of recession because they tend to be less affected by the economic instability. Judging by the latest evolution of the yellow metal, the gold is the safest investment that a person can make during the current economic recession.

Investors have begun to be more interested in the gold market as soon as the economic recession was officially declared in 2008. Since then, the price per ounce has continued to grow attracting increasingly more buyers. People, who understood where the gold market was heading to, took advantage of this opportunity and purchased gold to improve their budget with little effort. It is believed that the price per ounce will continue to grow in the following years, so investors will make money out of gold whether it is a bubble or not.

Nobody knows yet whether the gold is in a bubble or not, so financial analysts continue to discuss its situation. Those who claim that the precious metal is in a bubble that will eventually burst justify their stance by saying that the growth of the price has been too fast. On the other hand, there are those analysts who point to the fact that the yellow metal has remained stable during the past three years, so we can no longer consider it an asset price bubble.

In 2008, when the recession began, statistics showed that the price per ounce was 800 USD. In the following months, the price went higher than 1000 dollars and it didn't stop growing. There were some brief fluctuations during the years 2009 and 2010, but the ounce did not cost less than 1000 U.S. dollars. Just when analysts were expecting the precious metal to become stable, there was a new growth registered in the field and gold costs leaped above 1600 dollars reaching the highest limit in September 2011 with 1900 dollars per ounce.

Economists all agree now that there is no gold bubble and that the gold market will continue to flourish in the future due to the high rates of inflation. If you want to increase your gains, you should wait for the right moment when the price per ounce is smaller and purchase physical gold and bonds to resell them later.




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