Leo Larkin

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  Gold: Worth the Risk?

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 13, 2011

  Gold has many attributes that investors want, and it has been one of the few assets to deliver positive returns consistently since 2005.

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  FINRA Warns Investors to Beware of Gold Stock Scams

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  In an interview with AdvisorOne on Tuesday, S&P gold equity analyst Leo Larkin said the run-up in gold prices may be overplayed in a heated market. At the same time, FINRA warned against scams.

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  SPDR Gold Overtakes S&P 500 SPY as Top ETF

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 23, 2011

  As equity prices fall and gold prices rise, the market capitalizations of the two largest ETFs have switched places, with State Street's SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) overtaking the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) as the largest ETF in the world.

• Portfolio Fix: Rising Metals Prices Bring New Shine to Mining ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  April 9, 2011

  Gold and copper producers are likely to post strong earnings-per-share gains thanks to higher metals prices.

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  Portfolio Fix: Using Mining ETFs as a Commodity Play

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  March 14, 2011

  The rise in metals prices is now flowing through to earnings for metals producers.

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  Gold Mutual Funds Deliver Strong Performance as Prices Soar

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  December 2, 2010

  Screening among the two dozen mutual funds targeting gold mining companies, three funds with a five-star rank from Standard & Poor's are deserving of your consideration.

• A Golden Opportunity

  By Staff Writer  |  August 1, 2008

  The price of gold has been rising steadily since 2001. In 2007 alone, the spot price of gold rose 31.7%. Prices of other precious metals...

• All That Glitters Is Not Gold

  By Staff Writer  |  September 21, 2005

  With gold prices at 17-year highs -- up more than 5% since the Friday before Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. gulf coast -- investors are weighing whether there still is upside to the prices of gold stocks.