With the market the way it is today, you can’t help but look for an investment, any investment, that might react differently than everything else. These kind of investments are “non-correlated” because they move independently of the overall market. But they can be tricky to locate, and even harder to trust.

Amidst all the furore regarding the Labour administration’s embarrassingly mis-managed tax shortcomings, the cries of those in the UK warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in the developing world have been lost.

“Both gold and silver were off and running shortly before Comex trading ended in Sydney yesterday morning.”

“This lasted until the boys showed up for work in New York where things really got serious to the up-side. But once the London p.m. fix was in, the boys wasted no time in getting things cooled down in both metals. The stocks did well too” says Ed Steer.