| With the recent weakness in gold and silver exchange traded funds, year-to-date returns for precious metals ETFs are turning increasingly mediocre. For example, the SPDR Gold Shares enters Wednesday with year-to-date performances of up 2.3% for GLD and down 5% for the iShares Silver Trust. The ETFS Physical Platinum Shares has not been anything to write home about, either, with a loss of 1.5%.
The lone beacon of light among physically-backed precious metals ETFs in 2014 has been the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares with a gain of 18.4%. PALL has surged amid a variety of catalysts...............................................Full Article: Source
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