Barrick’s quarterly gold and copper output edges higher
Barrick Gold's second-quarter gold output edged up by almost 0.9% from the previous three months.
With the US dollar expected to remain weak for an extended period of time, ETFs that track commodity classes like silver (SLV), gold (GLD), and other precious metals (DPB) have become popular and conservative investments. Increasingly it is going to be important to have exposure to commodities in a long term portfolio to help offset the almost inevitable onset of inflation.