The gold price drop is more a temporary result of the stratospheric rise of the dollar against other currencies rather than a lack of appeal from the yellow metal. But as I warned last week, I have no idea when this will reverse.

We have stock tips from Britain, Denmark, Singapore, Portugal, Israel, China, and points in between. But first another new stock pick...

There used to be two gossip columns, "Lex" and “Men and Matters.” Neither was particularly authoritative and anyone who invested based on these columns deserved all the losses of money which ensured. Why I miss them