It hasn't been a great couple of years to be a gold bug. Since peaking at $1,923.70 per troy ounce in September 2011, gold has lost nearly 40 percent of its value. And while gold hasn't dropped dramatically this year, it has failed to gain back...
With losses in many investor accounts, and a feeling of desperation towards metals and miners, many in the metals world were cut at the base by the action of the metals and mining stocks in 2014. However, as Investing...
Saxo Bank is still working on their 2015 annual forecasts but Kitco News spoke with Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategist for the Danish bank to get his preliminary thoughts on the gold market for 2015. “Major investing firms are still lukewarm on gold,” he said...
Copper and industrial metals recovered after data showed the economy of the U.S., the second-biggest consumer of the metal, grew at the fastest pace since 2003 last quarter...
According to data compiled by International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukraine cut gold reserves for a second month to the lowest since August 2005 as Russia bought bullion for an eighth month to take its holdings to the highest in at least two decades...
"Physical gold demand in China and India were held back in 2014 amid high stocks and import controls, respectively," said Victor Thianpiriya, commodity strategist at ANZ. "Both these shackles have been removed, putting demand on a solid footing as we head into 2015...
Speculations that the Federal Reserve is moving closer to raising US interest rates amid growing economy have sent the yellow metal down to almost 1-week lows. Silver, platinum and palladium also declined...
In the period from 2001 to 2012, gold enjoyed 12 years of consecutive rising prices, and many investors hoped that the precios metal would be able to sustain its bull market well into the future...
Gold has had a fascination with the $1200 level over the last few weeks which has seen it trade either side of this level. Over the last week gold traded in a narrow range under $1220 before falling sharply back below to close out last week...
Why is gold hated more than ever by both governments and the financial services community? Some analysts consider it is because it has now become imperative to keep the illusion of confidence in sovereign debt and paper currencies...
Josh McCleary, co-founder of SilverSaver.com, took some time to talk with us about how to diversify into physical gold and silver, and the benefits of doing so. Why should people choose gold or silver as opposed to other investment options...
Recently, government officials from the Netherlands, Germany, and France have gained attention for expressing interest in repatriating their gold. What does this mean, and what consequences might it have for the precious metals market...
In last week's Swiss gold referendum, roughly 78% voted against expanding central bank gold reserves to 20% of central bank assets from the current 7%, as Forbes reports...
Gold raised as higher energy prices pressed concern that inflation will remain low and spurred demand for the precious metal as a store of value. Weaker gold prices are incentivizing demand in Asia, with Shanghai trading in the metal hitting last year's record...
The world’s biggest mining company BHP Billiton Ltd. considers there will be no slowdown in the drive by global iron-ore producers to boost production even as prices slump...
2014-11-13 13:30 GMT (or 14:30 MQ MT5 time) | [USD - Unemployment Claims] past data is 278K forecast data is 280K actual data is 290K according to the latest press release if actual > forecast (or actual data) = good for currency (for USD in our case...
Gold and silver have been crushed this week, burned by the rising dollar and the outflow of money looking for a home in stocks and other investments...
(Corrects scope of BoJ expansion in second paragraph.) Gold and silver fell in New York, slumping to the lowest since 2010, as the dollar strengthened after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly boosted stimulus and the Federal Reserve ended asset purchases this week...
(Bill Holter) Silver closed last week under $17 for the first time in 4 years. Maybe we have in store another "event" like 2008, 2011 or 2013 where the "price" gets forced down which explodes demand to a point where shortages again show up? Read More -> Sources...
LME Confirmed as New Metals Ringmaster as Market Rigging Fears Take Benchmarking Digital With palladium and platinum price 'fixing' shifting to the LME in December, is benchmark manipulation likely to be curbed or compounded? Any system or solution is only as good as its wielder...
