Metal Trend: Precious Metal Art, Fashion, and Investments

China's Golden Dragon
China is due to pay for it's energy with physical gold, rather than paper currency, effectively monetizing gold in the transaction. It's historic in the evolution of gold, to the reserve currency of choice." - King World News interviews Jim Sinclair.

Precious Metal Art Gallery
A streaming photo gallery featuring trends in precious metal art, jewlery, and fashion design. Add this gallery to your favorite platform to follow the latest designs in gold, silver and platinium.

Art Nouveau 18K gold floral enameled necklace with opals, pearls, and diamonds by Alphonse Mucha.

Dealer Directory: Gold and Silver
A directory of United States silver and gold dealers, buying and selling precious metals in the form of coins, bullion, and bars. Includes a listing of United Kingdom bullion dealers.

Current Gold Prices & Market Data
Weekly US market and global ecomonic events with live precious metal prices for gold, silver, platinium and palladium. Includes daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly metal prices.

Precious Metal Resource Links
A directory of precious metal resources, focusing on gold and silver bullion, offering financial forecasting, insights, and investment perspectives.

Metal Trend Articles
View the library of gold and silver bullion investment articles.

Gold & Silver News

May 16, 2012 Large investors who bought gold in the first quater of 2012, include, George Soros, PIMCO, John Paulson and the Texas Teacher Retirement Fund. Goldcore reports that "Prudent money with an understanding of gold's long term diversification benefits continues to accumulate gold as seen in the latest SEC filings."

April 29, 2012 "No asset is safe now. The only choice to hedge risks is to hold hard currency, Gold." - Zhang Jianhua, Peoples Bank of China

Feb 16, 2012 Central banks were net buyers of gold and their demand surged nearly 6 fold (570%) to 440 tonnes in 2011 (compared with 77 tonnes in 2010), more metal than at any time since the end of the gold standard in 1971. The World Gold Council noted that, "The buyers are all in Latin America, Asia and the Far East and they are basically enjoying strong growth, fiscal surpluses and growing foreign exchange reserves."

Feb 8, 2012 Both Inflation or Deflation Outcomes Increases Gold's Value - Credit Suisse (pdf) & LBS Research

Gold: The money of kings
Silver: The money of gentlemen
Barter: The money of peasants
Debt: The money of slaves