The rhodium price crashed in March by 32 percent but is recovering already. Still the rally of the last months and years stays impressive. The reason for the bull run is a tight supply and a strong demand. The causes of the jump have not yet disappeared and may last longer. Not only rhodium is scarce, but its ETC (XRH0), too. The largest rhodium producers,...
Is the Japanese stock market the nightmare of long-term investors? No. Investors who avoided the bubble-period reached a decent 3.9 real return p. a. Because of the currency appreciation, the return was higher in dollar terms. Japanese stocks in USD hit even new all-time high already. Are Japanese stocks still a good buying target? There are some positive...
On this chart, I increased, corrected the historical gold price with the US consumer price index (CPIAUCSL/260.33). Calculating the value of the past gold prices on the actual price level. (Inflation-adjusted gold price.) The result is, the 2011 all-time high in the gold price, by approximately 1,911 USD, is 2,204 USD worth on the actual price level, today. And...