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Why Buy Gold and Silver during Crisis?
By Rolf Suey - Invest in Yourself  •  March 22, 2020
Using SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) as reference to Gold price.


In 2008, Gold shares peak at $98 on 3 Sep 2008.

On 15 Sep 2008, Lehman Brothers collapse.

And in the next one month, Gold shares plunged to 2008 low at $71 on 26 Oct 2008.

This is more than 30% drop within 1-2 month.


Then come the cutting of interest rate and the Quantitative Easing (QE).

Thereafter Gold share price never look back for the next more than 2 years.

It rallied 250% up to Aug 2011 peaking at $183.


3 Sep 2008 - $98

26 Oct 2008 - $71 (~30% drop)

28 Aug 2011 - $183 (>250% rise)

22 Nov 2015 - $101 (80% drop)

3 Jan 2020 - $157 (>50% rise)







Sources: Yahoo finance.


Silver using iShares Silver chart as reference, is even more crazy, rallying from below $10 to $>46 on Apr 2011. That is a whopping >450% rise!


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By Rolf Suey - Invest in Yourself
I am a Singaporean, born in the late 1970s experiencing mid-life career crisis at time of writing this blog. One reason to start blogging at an older age, is to break my own comfort zone. While it can be considered late, it is "Better Late Than Never" ...
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