Your willingness to buy a stock should not be diminished by the fact that it has fallen in price. In everyday purchases, we want to buy things that are selling at discounts. In investing, people tend to prefer stocks when they are expensive and hate them when they are cheap.
Predictions of a hard landing in China will not pan out and global emerging market growth will accelerate in 2014 lifting demand for metals and minerals.
While 2013 will go down as the one when gold stop glittering and miners were forced to tighten their belts, our readers favoured a wide range of stories.