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Why gold may be in a new paradigm as the yellow metal soars in 2025
Gold may be in a new paradigm after beating a widely followed gauge of the U.S. stock market over the past two decades. "Gold has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 20 years by a wide margin," according to a DataTrek Research note emailed Wednesday - with the yellow metal returning 616% over that period, while the S&P 500 gained 421%. "This is not how things are 'supposed to be,'" said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in the note. "The human ingenuity embodied in stocks should deliver better returns than a static, if precious, metal." Gold (GC00) was trading around $3,405 an ounce on Wednesday ... (full story)