Both gold and silver are precious metals and both are often mentioned as some kind of safe haven – especially in a financial crysis. On the other hand both the application and the production of silver and gold are more or less different.
However risk and potential return carried by them was also different in the past 5 year, as it can be seen on the charts below:
Gold vs. silver price chart about the past 5 years*
The chart below shows by how many percents the price of precious metals has increased or decreased, as compared to the point on the left side of the screen.
Gold is often referred as a “safe haven” during an economical / financial crysis. Well, these opinions have proven more or less wrong according to long term / 10 year charts because gold’s price has shown quite high volatility. On the other hand gold’s price did not change as extremely as silver’s price.
Gold’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 year preceeding it. Today it is at cca. 700 $ below its peak (1900 vs 1200) Actually its price seems to stay around 1200 for the past year.
Gold is often referred as a “safe haven” during an economical / financial crysis. Well, these opinions have proven more or less wrong according to long term / 5 year charts because gold’s price has shown quite high volatility. On the other hand gold’s price did not change as extremely as silver’s price.
The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index has been introduced in its current form on 4 March 1957, but it existed previously as well. It has 500 components.
Oil is ofter reffered to as “black gold”. This page is about the past 5 years of the unprocessed form of crude light oil which is traded worldwide in the unit of bbl (1 US bbl oil = 158.99 l) and in the currency of USD.
Natural gas is mostly used for heating, in chemical industry, power generation and transportation.
This page is about the past 5 years of natural gas which is traded worldwide in the unit of mmBTU (1 mmBTU = 1.05587 GJ or 293.3 kWh) and in the currency of USD.
There are number of reasons to study historical charts of gold. Firstly because it is said to be investors’ safe haven and secondly because it is said to be protecting from inflation.
Lots of things happened on gold’s market in the past years and one can easily ask if it is really worth as much as it costs?
DJIA’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 years preceeding it. Today it is cca. 6000 points above its pre-crysis peak (20500vs. 14400) Actually it was growing rapidly since 2009, then the trend stopped for a while and it continues now.
Dow Jones’ value seems to be going up with short pauses since its lowest low in 2009. Rising trend seemed to be stopped for a while, but DJIA value started to rise again.
