30.12.2009 - Gold beats commodities and stocks in the noughties
From Livemint.com: The 2000s have seen gold outperform both stocks and commodities. The outperformance hasn’t been uniform, of course. As the chart shows, crude oil did much better than gold during the boom years between 2004 and 2007 and went on to scale a spectacular peak in 2008 before collapsing. It’s only in the last one year or so that gold has decisively done better than crude oil. The chart shows, however, that the returns from gold continued to be higher than for the Sensex till the middle of 2006, when the boom was already well advanced..........................................Full Article: Source
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