Retreating to the sanctuary of gold

FEATURE - 'Gold is back,' declared a leading news agency this week in an analysis into why the yellow metal has pushed resolutely back above US$300 an ounce for the first time in two years, and why investor interest is at its highest in almost 20 years.

Originally published in the Business Times, Singapore, 25 April.

An appropriate retort might be that gold has never been away - for the past 3,000 years or more - and that it is simply reasserting the appeal it has had throughout decades, centuries

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