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Gold – a long way to go?

Paddy Hirsch Mar 20, 2009

Gold is still trading above $950 an ounce. Crazy high, right? But it could go a lot higher.
Eddy Elfenbein over at Crossing Wall Street notes that over the past few decades, gold has badly trailed stocks.

Here’s a look at gold divided by the Wilshire 5000 Total Return Index.

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