Bitten by the gold bug

On a conference call with investors last month, John Paulson, whose bet against the US subprime mortgage bubble in 2007 has been called "the greatest trade ever", boasted that one of his biggest hedge funds would have been up 15 per cent this year -- if only he had not owned gold stocks.

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