MarketWatch: Western Investors Using Gold as Hedge
16/1/2013
LONDON, 16 January 2013 - US financial news-site MarketWatch today cites BullionVault's Gold Investor Index as a key measure of bullishness amongst private individuals.
"BullionVault's Gold Investor Index, which gauges sentiment toward gold among self-directed Western investors, hit a 12-month high in December," says MarketWatch in its latest precious-metals update.
"Investors in the West," it goes on, quoting BullionVault's chief economist, Ben Traynor, "continue to be anxious about the economic outlook and are turning to gold as a hedge."
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