Gold is a Responsible Hedge at Times of Terror Risk

Gold and relative securities are a responsible hedge now against dollar exposure because of the risk of terrorism around the September 11 memorial and also on the possibility that the Federal Reserve refrains from rate action. Either would likely harm dollar strength and lift gold prices higher.

FBI Director James Comey said at an intelligence community conference Thursday: “We’ve long found, as you know with al Qaeda, an organization trying to motivate acts in association with that date,” he said. “And we’ve seen some focus on date in [the Islamic State’s] efforts to motivate violence in the homeland.”

See the full report on gold and terrorism risk here. 

Precious Metal Relative

SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD)

iShares Gold Trust (NYSE: IAU)

ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Trust (NYSE: SGOL)

iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV)

ETFS Physical Silver Trust (NYSE: SIVR)

Market Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE: GDX)

Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners (NYSE: GDXJ)

Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X (NYSE: NUGT)

Goldcorp (NYSE: GG)

Randgold Resources (Nasdaq: GOLD)

Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX)

Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW)

Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE)

Silvercorp Metals (NYSE: SVM)

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