Stocks of gold and silver companies had another exceptional day.

The stocks of gold mining companies, in turn, got a big lift.

I espouse any enterprise that will increase my stock of gold.

Most big losers among international stock funds specialized in stocks of gold producers and other metals companies.

Well, the war came and Gold-finger, like all other jewellers, had to declare his stock of gold.

But this represented an increase in the stock of gold held as reserves of only 17 per cent.

Stocks of gold, silver and platinum group metals are valued according to the source from which the metal is obtained.

Mr. Brenna said his funds were almost always fully invested in stocks of gold and mineral companies.

Currently, the only easily obtainable exposure to gold is in stocks of gold producers.

The reason was that the terrorists were determined to recover a stock of gold hidden near the Kovil (Temple).

My modest stock of gold was running low, and I foresaw that I was likely to need more in the future.

One of the biggest immediate impacts of the British announcement was a plunge in the stocks of gold mining companies.

Any such action, officials said, would certainly involve selling some of the I.M.F.'s vast stock of gold, currently valued at $40.7 billion.

For people who don't want the trouble and expense of buying, storing and protecting bullion, he suggests the stocks of gold mining companies.

(The fund is not limited to energy stocks, investing 20 percent of its assets in the stocks of gold mining, shipping and water companies.)

Not only are stocks of gold mining companies trading at hefty multiples, but gold mutual funds generally carry large management fees - and their yield is quite small.

With declining oil prices seeming to quell some investors' fears that inflation would heat up, stocks of gold companies, which are often used as a hedge against inflation, sagged.

Note holders ran to banks to redeem their currency only to find that banks' stocks of gold and silver were depleted and banks were no longer extending credit.

Carrying the largest stock of gold in the world, the world, in moments of danger, when crises of international finance loom large, looks to her vast lending ability for safety.

The stocks of gold mining companies rallied after Barton Biggs, a Morgan Stanley portfolio strategist, made positive comments about gold, which attracts investors in times of economic uncertainty.

Until these changes occur, even gold bulls like Mr. Hathaway, who runs Tocqueville's $20 million fund that invests in the stocks of gold companies, say any rally will be contained.

If the government is to achieve a balance in the accounts in a current account deficit, it means either borrowing from abroad or reducing the government's stocks of gold and/or foreign exchange reserves.

When I was originally briefed I was shown a stock of gold badges and imposing credential covers bearing the seal of the Treasury in gold on simulated morocco leather.

Central banks controlled about 23 percent of the above-ground stocks of gold at the end of 1998, according to Gold Fields Mineral Services, a leading precious metals research firm based in London.

Given this year's price decline, Mr. Eveillard said his Sogen fund, which makes its bets on gold by buying stocks of gold companies, might become one of the casualties of the rout.