{"id":61495,"date":"2009-12-03T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/did-paulson-make-50-million-in-5-weeks-betting-on-gold-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:59:00","slug":"amazing-john-paulson-makes-50-million-in-five-weeks-on-a-gold-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/61495","title":{"rendered":"Amazing: John Paulson Makes $50 Million In Five Weeks On A Gold Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4ac3ad378655345f5a93bbbd&amp;maxX=351&amp;maxY=263\" border=\"0\" alt=\"JohnPaulson-0909-1\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Paulson&#8217;s gold obsession is paying off.<\/p>\n<p>John Paulson has been betting big on gold for a few weeks now, and he is launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paulson-starts-a-new-gold-fund-2009-11\">a new gold only fund in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, the hedge fund manager of Paulson and Co might have made $45 million in 5 weeks &#8211; off of just one of the gold investments in his portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ajab_txy3yJM&amp;pos=4\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>: &#8220;Paulson &amp; Co., based in New York, held 10.3 million shares of Toronto-based Detour as of Oct. 31, according to a Nov. 10 regulatory filing. The stock has gained 34 percent since Oct. 31 to C$17.85 a share at 11:09 a.m. in Toronto Stock Exchange trading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paulson&#8217;s other gold holdings include shares in Kinross Gold Corp. and Gold Fields Ltd, and he&#8217;s also the largest shareholder of AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ajab_txy3yJM&amp;pos=4\">Read the full story on Bloomberg &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/did-paulson-make-50-million-in-5-weeks-betting-on-gold-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-look-at-hedge-fund-gold-holdings-2009-11\">John Paulson Hoarding More Gold Than Several Countries Combined<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-paulsons-reputation-as-the-undertaker-2009-11\">John Paulson Is A Great Trader Because He&#8217;s Grumpy And Negative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paulson-starts-a-new-gold-fund-2009-11\">Paulson Starts A New Gold Fund (KGC, AU)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/QurEATZFtR0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Paulson&#8217;s gold obsession is paying off. John Paulson has been betting big on gold for a few weeks now, and he is launching a new gold only fund in January. According to Bloomberg, the hedge fund manager of Paulson and Co might have made $45 million in 5 weeks &#8211; off of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}