<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Gold and Precious Metals Portal</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/</link><description>Latest News</description><language>en</language><generator>Gold and Precious Metals Portal</generator><copyright>Gold and Precious Metals Portal</copyright><item><title>Metalbug introduces gold and precious metal iPhone application</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/Gold_article26.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description>Metalbug provides real-time spot prices directly from Kitco for gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium. Features unique to Metalbug include purity (Karat or %) and weight (unit) options to quickly determine the current market value of precious metal assets.

Metalbug gives users the ability to stay on top of the precious metals marketplace whenever and wherever they are. Metalbug function </description></item><item><title>Gold is the ultimate insurance against economic and financial difficulties</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/Gold_article13.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:06:41 GMT</pubDate><description>The words credit crunch send shivers racing down the spines of the majority of the developed world. Whether rich or poor, the fact of the matter is that we are all affected, and entering into financial investments at this tumultuous time can be risky business.

But while most investors reel in anger as their bricks and mortar dwindle into negative equity and their stocks lose value quicker than  </description></item><item><title>Look beyond the US Dollar to see what's really happening in the Gold Market</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/Gold_article4.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:35 GMT</pubDate><description>It has become a knee-jerk reaction for investors to look at the Gold Price in terms of the US Dollar alone, and for commentators to only follow its moves in that currency.  There is good reason for this, of course, for the US Dollar is the global reserve currency at present   even if it is beginning to look of dubious value today.

Why don't we measure gold in a strong currency such as the Euro? </description></item><item><title>Maktari closes gold bullion deal worth $11.7 billion</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/Gold_article3.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:59:43 GMT</pubDate><description>Apart from Saudi Arabia's oil and gas reserves, there are believed to be sizeable deposits of other minerals within the Royal Kingdom. Mr M L A Maktari the broker appointed for and on behalf of a private investor within Saudi Arabia has just closed and reserved for the next 3 years gold bullion to the value of just under $11.7 billion.

Most of these deposits are within Switzerland as holding is </description></item><item><title>BullionVault growth accelerates as credit crunch pushes savers into gold bullion</title><link>http://www.GoldPreciousMetals.com/Gold_article1.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:56:30 GMT</pubDate><description>BullionVault.com has announded it has accelerated its growth in the third quarter as the global credit crunch sparked a move into bullion by cash savers.

Gold holdings by volume grew by more than one-fifth between July and October. BullionVault now looks after more than $102 million in gold and cash on behalf of private individuals based in 78 countries worldwide.

At the end of September 200 </description></item></channel></rss>