The Aussie dollar gold price could be well supported going forward. Keeping an eye on those trends in gold and waiting for the right time to strike could lead to a great long term buying opportunity.

ABN Amro recently revised its global macro and gold outlook, forecasting a $1,300 gold price by the end of this year.

The gold-silver decline was nasty, taking down nominal precious metal prices, as well as the share price for many a mining firm..

Last week prices plummeted for gold, silver, platinum, oil and more. It was a market-wide retreat – helped along by the ‘usual suspect’ market movers.

Shouldn’t there be panic in the streets, with investors doing all in their power to get rid of their gold at all costs? No. Quite the opposite in fact.

The gold price makes a major move to the downside…Why this price won’t last….The opportunity you can take…

If you’ve ever thought about buying gold, but never quite got round to it — in the space of a week, the market just gave you three huge reasons to ‘back up the truck’.

Against the backdrop of fiscal mismanagement, political incompetence, and failed austerity measures, the world’s biggest traders have all bet heavily on gold. Lately, they’ve been pulling out all the stops to get what they want while laughing all the way to bigger bonuses.

As the FTSE pushes to five-year highs, gold has just had another torrid week. My analysis suggests we could reach a key decision point for the gold price before the end of March. Here’s why.

The gold price is on its way up for a number of reasons. Which is why now is the best time to buy gold before the price surges again.

No matter how you slice it, Germany’s request for its gold does not bode well for the future of the US dollar.

After spending more than 50 years in foreign hands, Germany’s gold is finally going home. So why does Germany want its gold back, and why now?

Mark this day in your diary. This is the day that the central bankers showed their hands. Germany looks set to announce that they want all of their gold back. And the gold price has had a nice little kick higher in recent days.

Gold bullion, gold stocks or no gold at all? I put that question to Real Asset Returns Editor Peter Krauth last week. You see, there’s a lot of interest in investing in gold right now. Or perhaps I should say that there’s a lot of interest in what gold might do.

The single biggest reason why gold could have a big start to 2013: Gold closely follows the US debt level.

As we’ve always said about gold, we consider it an insurance policy. Just because we didn’t have a car accident yesterday, doesn’t mean we’ll cancel our car insurance policy today. But there’s another reason why the gold price has held up, and why it will soon hotfoot it higher again.

For the final edition of Money Weekend we’ve brought you a taste of this year’s most popular articles (and more).

It’s not very often Money Morning editor Kris Sayce has time for a chat. Luckily for us, he kindly agreed to sit down and reflect on the year that’s been and the one that’s coming. Including his investment strategy for 2013.

In just over two hours, the gold price was taken from about $1,693 to $1,660. ‘Those days’ are becoming a little too frequent for my liking. We’ve had about five of them since the beginning of November. Somebody doesn’t like gold …

Gold has now had TWO slow years in a row – so maybe gold is now set for a boomer year in 2013.

Since the replacement of the gold standard with the dollar standard, the gold price has fluctuated widely.

The US government is just weeks away from reaching the US debt ceiling …again.

Why have gold stocks proven such a lousy place to put money? There are lots of reasons, most having to do with the deteriorating economics of mining the stuff.