German bonds rose for the first time in five days as the European Central Bank was said to be a preparing a package of broad-based asset purchases...
The US Marshals Service (USMS) received more than two dozen bids for 50,000 Bitcoin seized during the FBI’s raid on Silk Road wallets. Lynzey Donahue, a spokesperson of USMS, revealed that that government received 27 bids from a total of 11 bidders. The winning bids will be announced today...
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...
Emerging-market stocks declined after U.S. payrolls data, while Russian government bonds were poised for the worst week since 2009 amid speculation interest rates will rise. The Russian currency climbed...
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...
The yen was flat and the Aussie dipped on Friday in early Asia with the focus on key U.S. jobs data ahead. The euro was almost unchanged against the U.S...
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...
“There’s no doubt lower oil prices will act as a stimulus to growth in the region,” Frederik Ducrozet, a Paris-based economist at Credit Agricole, said by phone to Bloomberg. “Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy would be clear beneficiaries.”...
It’s almost the end of the year and you know what that means - it’s time to look back and review the movers and shakers of the currency world! So which currency pairs dominated 2014 trading? 1. USD/JPY (+13...
After unexpected USD weakness on Monday allowed commodities and metals an opportunity to recover some recent heavy losses, the USD regained its momentum on Tuesday...
Amazon stocks might be in for more gains, as price just recently broke through a key resistance zone. Price just closed a few days above the 200 simple moving average. MACD is heading higher, indicating that there’s buying momentum present and may be enough to sustain the rally for Amazon stocks...
The week could not have gotten off to much more of a negative start with a series of disappointing economic data...
On Monday the Russian central bank was reported to be active in the currency markets as it sought to restrain what seemed like the biggest one-day fall in the ruble since the debt default of 1998. It is understandable why Moscow backtracked...
As oil prices drop to more than four-year lows, analysts are slashing their forecasts, with some predicting it could plunge as much as 40 percent to around $40 a barrel...
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...
With the Fed cutting back its massive QE bond-buying program this year bonds would plunge. It seems that economists expecting bonds to plunge failed to anticipate that foreign demand for U.S. treasury bonds would make up for the slowing of Fed bond buying...
The overwhelming majority of market attention on Thursday was directed on the OPEC meeting, where a decision was made not to cut Oil production...
Both Brent and Crude Oil extended to new milestone lows overnight, with optimism continuing to fade that the OPEC decision later today will support a cut in production. Overnight, Brent declined to $76.30 while Crude dropped to $72.58...
