SPDR Gold Shares ETF

NYSE ARCA: GLD
$242.21
+$3.04 (+1.3%)
Closing Price on September 20, 2024

GLD Articles

If there was a single trading event for investors, traders, and speculators from early October to early December, it was not stocks and was not bonds.  It was not even the bet against the US...
It looks like the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is about to get some new competition, albeit far a far smaller trading vehicle.  A F-1 filing at the SEC was made today by Sprott Physical Gold Trust,...
Friday’s surprisingly strong job report sent the dollar soaring (NYSE: FXE, FXB, FXA, FXY).  Skittish currency traders got the impression that the improvement in the job market might prompt the...
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.2% to 10% and that nonfarm payroll jobs declined by just 11,000.  The market rallied in the early...
Yesterday Soros Fund Management Filed a 13-F outlining the fund’s long portfolio as of September 30th, 2009.  The total value of the holdings reported in the filing is $6,198,089.  Twenty...
Yesterday’s surprise move from India that sent gold through the roof to almost $1,085.00 per ounce was a game changing event in gold.  Many technical analysts and chartists were looking for, or at...
Now that Gold has busted $1,000.00 and headed up almost every day since, the next target commodity is oil and the question is if black gold can mirror the performance of yellow gold.  One of our...
Gold has just hit a new contract high of $1,035.00 on a nominal basis.  While this is far short of an inflation-adjusted price compared to the 1980’s highs, this is still a nominal high.  The...
Maybe it is time after a 50%+ gain in the major equity indexes, or maybe it is just everyone getting into the October bearish mode.  We are hearing more and more calls for a very weak equities...
This morning’s reports on unemployment (up), manufacturing (down), housing (sort of up), and consumer spending (up a little) have pushed the market down. Out of the gate this morning, gold miners...
Now that Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:ABX) has raised $4 billion or so to buy out its hedges, the company is set to enjoy an expected run-up in gold prices. In early trading today, Barrick shares were up...
While everyone is stuck talking about the one year anniversary of the Lehman implosion and the real start of the next-to-last big leg down in the financial sector, there is a significant development...
We have a whole host of stocks and sectors to watch throughout this coming week.  We have Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: CTB) to watch on some...
The commodities call is back on.  It isn’t $100 oil, but it is for $1,000.00 gold.  We have two well respected market technicians calling for higher gold prices.  At 10:12 AM EST,  Spot Gold...
Two months ago it was a carnal sin to suggest that certain exchange-traded funds or notes which track commodities would start trading more like a closed-end fund based upon supply and demand moves in...