{"id":718727,"date":"2010-04-17T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-paulson-gold-etfs-2010-4"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:19:52","slug":"a-tale-of-two-gold-etfs-guess-which-one-john-paulson-is-long-gs-phys-gld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/718727","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two Gold ETFs &#8212; Guess Which One John Paulson Is Long (GS, PHYS, GLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was chatter that if the Goldman Sachs (GS) charges had legs and somehow damaged John Paulson, then it could prompt him to sell his gold holdings.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a bit unlikely, but possible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, take a look at how these two gold ETFs performed yesterday: The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and the Sprott&#8217;s Physical Gold Trust (PHYS). One was down nearly 2%, while the other down less than 1%. Guess which one John Paulson holds.<\/p>\n<p><em>See out full coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/goldman-sachs-sec-charges\">SEC vs. Goldman Sachs here &gt;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bc9bd057f8b9aa93f770900-582-221\/chart.png?resize=582%2C221\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"582\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-paulson-gold-etfs-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Koek1KaTD6I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was chatter that if the Goldman Sachs (GS) charges had legs and somehow damaged John Paulson, then it could prompt him to sell his gold holdings. It seems a bit unlikely, but possible. Anyway, take a look at how these two gold ETFs performed yesterday: The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and the Sprott&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30Yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820224,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718727\/revisions\/820224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}