Should you buy into Barrick Gold's big London listing?

Barrick, the world's largest gold producer, is to list its African unit in a London IPO. With gold still firmly in a bull market, is this something you should be buying into? Or is it one to avoid? Dominic Frisby investigates.

I can remember back in 2004, sipping wine with a French friend, looking out at the sea off the South-West coast of France, and explaining why he should buy gold.

Whether it was the wine or my argument that persuaded him, he was convinced. He announced that the following morning he would buy options on Barrick, the world's largest gold producer.

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