Wiley RealTime Finance: Portfolio Investment Opportunities in: Precious Metal -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Section 1: Advantages and Risks of Precious Metals -- The Gold Debate -- Fundamental Forces against Gold -- Valuation Forces against Gold -- Psychological, Technical, and Liquidity Forces against Gold -- Fundamental Forces for Gold -- Valuation Forces for Gold -- Psychological, Technical, and Liquidity Forces for Gold -- Section 2: Precious Metals Investment Performance and Correlations -- Correlations of Annual Returns of Precious Metals -- Principal uses of Precious Metals -- Section 3: Overview of Gold -- History and Background of Gold -- Why Central Banks Hold Gold -- Gold Sales under Central Bank Gold Agreements (CBGA) -- Major Central Banks' Gold Holdings -- Gold as an Asset Class -- Demand, Supply, and Global Gold Holdings -- Jewelry and Net Retail Investment in Gold -- Above-Ground Stocks of Gold, Demand and Supply Flows -- The Price of Gold -- Gold Demand Outlook -- China and Gold Ore Reserves -- Origins of Gold Demand in China -- Long-Term Outlook for the Chinese Gold Market -- China and Gold -- India and Gold -- Gold Price Relative to the S&P 500 -- Gold Prices during Periods of Uncertainty -- Gold Price versus the DJIA and the S&P 500 -- Ratio of the Price of Gold to the Price of Silver -- Annual World Production of Gold since 1900 -- Global Supply of and Fabrication Demand for Gold -- Investment Performance of Gold Share Indices -- Physical Gold -- Section 4: Overview of Silver -- History and Background of Silver -- The Price of Silver -- Annual World Production of Silver since 1900 -- Global Supply and Demand Data for Silver -- Physical Silver -- Section 5: Overview of Platinum and Palladium -- History and Background of Platinum and Palladium -- The Price of Platinum and Palladium.

World Production of Platinum and Palladium -- Global Supply and Demand Data -- Physical Platinum and Palladium -- Section 6: Overview of Precious Metals Companies -- Select Factors Leading to Price Divergence between Precious Metals and Precious Metals Mining Shares -- Select Precious Metals Mining Shares Indexes -- NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index -- Philadelphia Stock Exchange Index -- Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index -- FTSE Gold Mines Index -- S&P/TSX Global Gold Index -- Examples of Precious Metals Companies -- Precious Metals Futures and Options Contracts -- Section 7: Select U.S. Legislation Affecting Gold -- The Gold Confiscation Executive Order of April 5, 1933 -- The Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917 -- Executive Order 6102 of April 5, 1933: Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates -- Reports of Safe Deposit Box Seizure -- Section 8: Additional Information on Gold -- Background Information on Gold -- Characteristics -- Monetary Exchange -- History -- Occurrence -- Production -- Consumption -- Symbolism -- State Emblem and State Mineral -- The California Gold Rush and the Panic of 1857 -- When Wall Street Rescued the U.S. Treasury -- Britain's 1999-2002 Sale of Gold Reserves -- Switzerland and Gold -- Gold Performance Relative to Real Interest Rates -- Gold Investment Flows -- Money Supply and Gold Price vs. Inflation -- Operation of the Gold Market -- Over-the-Counter Market -- London Bullion Market -- Futures Exchanges -- Market Regulation -- Section 9: Additional Sources and Disclosures -- Select Websites -- Books -- Reports -- Periodicals -- Other -- Disclosures -- Acknowledgments.