Paul Singer, the hedge-fund billionaire behind Elliott Management, warned last month that the ultimate path of global stock markets is a drop of at least 50% from February highs. What’s an investor to do in the face of such a grim outlook? Load up on gold, perhaps. After all, according to a report this week from the Financial…

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This year is shaping up exactly like the 2000 dot-com bubble crash and stocks will drop a further 40%, a former Goldman Sachs manager has warned. April produced the best monthly gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.58% and S&P 500 SPX, -1.04% in 82 years — after the worst first quarter in history — and May has so…

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Paul Singer, the hedge-fund billionaire behind Elliott Management, warned last month that the ultimate path of global stock markets is a drop of at least 50% from February highs. What’s an investor to do in the face of such a grim outlook? Load up on gold, perhaps. After all, according to a report this week from the Financial…

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Gold will rally 80% over the next 18 months as central-bank stimulus and economic turmoil drive record interest, Bank of America analysts forecast in a Monday note. Monetary authorities are spending trillions of dollars to keep economies above water. The widespread spending will place incredible pressure on currencies, pushing investors to gold and its scarcity, the bank’s analysts…

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