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Gold outperforms stock market so far this century

The yellow metal has outperformed the S&P 500 so far this century, returning 86% more than the market, says a World Gold Council report

Gold outperforms stock market so far this century
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Puneet Wadhwa New Delhi
Gold prices have outperformed the markets – S&P 500 – thus far in this century (i.e. since 2000), returning 86% more than the market if both asset classes were indexed at 100 levels starting December 31, 1999, suggests the latest World Gold Council’s ‘Gold Investor’ report for September 2017.

“The current equity bull market, now in its eighth year, is one of the longest in US history – it could very well become the longest. Even so, gold has outperformed the S&P 500 so far this century, returning 86% more than the market if we index both asset classes at