Gold has always been a safe haven, when times get hard – as of now, the price has pushed ahead to US$950 an ounce. (That’s a troy ounce – precious metals still work in pennyweights etc., from when silver and gold were the currency…) The other precious metals have always tended to be coupled with gold – silver is up around 20% in the last 2 months, platinum and palladium around 15%.
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