2009 Precious Metals Performance: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium
Precious metals delivered a strong performance during 2009 with strong returns across the major categories of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Although gold seemed to dominate the attention of the mainstream press, the annual performance figures reveal that it was outperformed by other precious metals.
The table below displays the last price of 2008 from Kitco’s [...]
Gold, Silver & Platinum 2009 Second Quarter Performance
With the second quarter behind us, let’s take a look at the performance of gold, silver, and platinum for the second quarter of 2009 and year to date.
All of the metals posted gains, but at single digit levels. The best performer for the second quarter was silver with a gain of 6.33%, followed by platinum [...]
Gold, Silver & Platinum 2009 First Quarter Performance
With the first quarter at an end, let’s take a look at the performance of gold, silver, and platinum so far this year.
When putting the numbers together, I knew what to expect, but its still surprising to see where the final numbers landed. Gold, silver, and platinum’s performance relative to one another has basically been [...]
2008 Gold, Platinum & Silver Performance
As trillions of dollars in equity values were vaporized this year, a strong November and December performance pushed gold into positive territory by year end. Gold’s annual gain was 4.32%. This marks gold’s eighth consecutive annual gain. The “lost decade” for stocks, has been quite the opposite for gold. Silver and platinum were less fortunate, [...]
