Not exact matches
In 2017, the
total market for such currencies topped $ 100 billion as investors of all stripes began to embrace them as an alternate asset class akin to
gold.
In all, the
total market for
gold is worth over $ 8 trillion.
In fact, we could own every single company in the entire HUI
gold bug index, and their
total market cap would incredibly be less than 1/4 the
market cap of one company, Apple.
Consider that despite the stellar performance of
gold mining stocks this year that have been, by far, the strongest performing asset class of 2016 (along with silver mining stocks), and that even with the massive growth in market cap of PM stocks during H1 2016, the total market cap of all the mining stocks that comprise the HUI Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger than 1/3 the market cap of Facebook and Ama
gold mining stocks this year that have been, by far, the strongest performing asset class of 2016 (along with silver mining stocks), and that even with the massive growth in
market cap of PM stocks during H1 2016, the
total market cap of all the mining stocks that comprise the HUI
Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger than 1/3 the market cap of Facebook and Ama
Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger than 1/3 the
market cap of Facebook and Amazon.
Exports of
gold are largely responsible for the sharp increase in resource exports to India over the past year, although this has been at the expense of alternative
markets such as in east Asia and the EU, as Australia's
total gold exports have not increased significantly over this period.
What is the size of the
total short physical
gold position, or put another way, how much
gold from their vaults have the central banks collectively deposited, leased or swapped into the
market through the bullion banks?
Even as
gold prices fell for the first time in 14 years in 2013, BMO Capital
Markets of Montreal, Canada, advised its clients in the metals and mining industry on 17 deals worth a
total of $ 6.4 billion in North America — a higher value than any other bank.
According to historic data, which accounts for
total search volumes, «buy bitcoin» is now three times more popular than «buy
gold» was even during the 2008 - 09
market crash - when consumers feared for the safety of their cash.
Initial results aren't encouraging with Freeport McMoran (FCX: NYSE), Barrick
Gold (ABX: NYSE), Glencore PLC (GLEN: LON), and Anglo American (AAL: LON), maintaining
total debt levels well in excess of their current
market capitalizations, even after billions of dollars of write downs and rounds of cost cuts.
Given that this new block of investors can now be unleashed on the
gold market, if even a mere 1 percent of the overall value of Islamic investment is allocated to the yellow metal, it would be equivalent to approximately USD 65 billion or 1,700 tonnes of new global demand, nearly double China's estimated
total demand for
gold in 2015.
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Gold has had an abysmal return over the last 40 years versus the
total stock
market.
In the bull
gold market from June 2015 to mid-June 2016, IAU had a
total return of 7.68 % and NUGT had a
total return of 16 %.
While SPDR
Gold Trust (GLD) as well as CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) did not genuinely catch fire until the start of 2016, while PowerShares U.S. Dollar Bullish (UUP) has actually lost a bit of ground year - to - date, the fact remains that all three of these «risk - off» assets have outperformed Vanguard
Total U.S. Stock
Market (VTI) since QE3 ended (12/18/2014).
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Even though GICs, real estate and
gold have just had what we believe are the best 30 years ever and the period of time we looked at was at the bottom of the 2008 stock
market decline, Canadian stocks have still had
total returns 2.6 times GIC returns, 4.3 times real estate returns and 4.6 times the growth in
gold.
At the same time, Malkiel advocates that
gold constitutes a part of the investor's
total portfolio as a diversification mechanism because of its tendency to have low correlation with the US
market.
Bonds via Vanguard
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Market (BND),
gold via SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and the «risk - off» Japanese yen via Currency Shares Yen Trust (FXY) have all outperformed the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (S
gold via SPDR
Gold Trust (GLD) and the «risk - off» Japanese yen via Currency Shares Yen Trust (FXY) have all outperformed the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (S
Gold Trust (GLD) and the «risk - off» Japanese yen via Currency Shares Yen Trust (FXY) have all outperformed the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY).
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Software developer Gaming Realms, an affiliate of entertainment hub
Total Gold, says that the growth in
market of mobile gaming comes from the increased adoption of smartphones by consumers, which accounts for 17 % of mobile usage and 50 % of smartphone app usage.
The
total market cap for cryptocurrency is around $ 70 billion — nowhere close to the estimated
market cap for
gold, which is somewhere between $ 6 and $ 7 trillion.
If some small fraction of the people holding
gold (say, 5 %) sold their
gold for US Dollars (releasing $ 400 bn), and the USD proceeds were used to buy bitcoins, the
total value of bitcoins (commonly referred to as «
market capitalisation») would increase by that amount of dollars ($ 400bn), and because we know the
total number of bitcoins in circulation, we can derive a price per bitcoin.
Let's not forget that the
total market value of these cryptocurrencies is $ 180 billion or so, maybe a little less now - that's tiny compared to
gold.»
As the Financial Times reports, Euroclear, which works with different kinds of financial assets of the
total amount of more than $ 27 trillion, intends to study the perspectives of creating a new settlement system for London
gold market.
Launched in 2011 by a former Google engineer, Litecoin has been referred to as the silver to bitcoin's
gold, with a
market cap of $ 13,161,359,753 and a
total circulation of more than 54 million tokens.
While that may seem like a lot, it's only a fraction of the
total market cap for
gold (about $ 7 trillion).
He compares the
market cap of bitcoin, which has shrunk in recent sessions to less than that of McDonald's $ 132 billion, not to mention the
total size of the
gold market at some $ 8 trillion.