The guys at Gold Fields don't think much of the idea.

Commodity funds took advantage of the one-way bet offered by a weakening dollar.

If I look at the operations, they don't seem to be making money. It's making losses at the operating level.

This 11% rise in average revenue, combined with higher output and lower costs, will see earnings rise significantly.

It's an interesting move - I don't think anyone expected them to withdraw from mining. It may indicate a strategic call that the precious metal bull run is over.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.