Gold awareness increasing?
Telegraph
Gold: The precious laggard that will hit $2000
quotes I liked:
"The sharp rise in oil and the relatively low rise in gold has pushed the gold/oil ratio to the lowest levels seen for decades. Either gold is incredibly cheap or oil is incredibly expensive on a relative basis."
"Gold hit a peak of $850 in 1980 and to equate that in real terms, ie adjusted for inflation, gold today would have to rise to around $2,500 an ounce at present. A rise of that magnitude would also restore the gold/oil ratio to its historic norm."
"Previously it was the sale of gold by central banks that supplied the market and helped keep a lid on the gold price."
BUT
"this strategy is looking more and more like a busted flush. It is unlikely that the UK will be in a rush to sell any more of the Bank of England's gold, not that it has much left to sell. The same applies to many other central banks such as Holland, Belgium and Canada who have been long-term sellers of gold. They have run out of gold to sell. At the same time the central banks of the emergent economies, have become buyers."
I liked this article because it gives sensible and non-sensationalist reasons for being in Gold, i.e that Gold's bull run is merely a set of long term ratio's rebalancing and that when this occurs Gold will be at fair value.
Cheers