Gold Crushed – It Ain’t Pretty & it Will Get Worse

By “gold crush” I do not refer to an immature infatuation with the shiny metal but rather the beating gold investors took last week. Gold has actually been getting crushed for several months now since stabilizing from a prior price down. We can expect more of the same for as long as the same catalyst remains in the driver’s seat. Long-term gold holders with stakes in gold for diversification purposes or for other reasons, and who can bear near-term bloodshed, should again see better days within their long holding period. However, those investors interested in near-term capital preservation or appreciation should probably look elsewhere. See our report on gold here.

Precious Metal Relative	Last Wk	Last 3 Mos.	TTM
SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD)	-2.5%	-6.0%	-13.9%
iShares Gold Trust (NYSE: IAU)	-2.6%	-5.9%	-13.8%
ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Trust (NYSE: SGOL)	-2.5%	-6.0%	-14.5%
iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV)	-4.4%	-8.6%	-29.9%
ETFS Physical Silver Trust (NYSE: SIVR)	-4.6%	-8.4%	-28.7%
Market Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE: GDX)	-7.9%	-21.8%	-42.5%
Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners (NYSE: GDXJ)	-5.3%	-14.3%	-52.2%
Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X (NYSE: NUGT)	-23%	-55.2%	-89.1%
Goldcorp (NYSE: GG)	-10.4%*	-24.8%	-44.4%
Randgold Resources (Nasdaq: GOLD)	-3.6%	-17.1%	-28.6%
Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX)	-13.1%	-30.5%	-52.8%
Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW)	-9.5%	-29.5%	-48.1%
Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE)	-8.2%	-22.3%	-48.8%
Silvercorp Metals (NYSE: SVM)	-9.6%	-28.8%	-56.2%

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