GLDW News and Press, SPDR Long Dollar Gold Trust From 02/13/20

It is hard to believe that back in the early 1980s, a US 30-Year Treasury Bond offered an almost 20% yield. In the days when inflationary pressures were roaring, a $100,000 investment in a US Treasury bond paid the holder a coupon of $20,000 each year over the thirty-year life of the fixed inc...

For the third year in a row, the Turkish Mint has produced more gold coins than the U.S. Mint. In the international English-speaking gold community, the U.S. Mint is often regarded as the largest mint globally in terms of gold coins produced (measured by weight). Western media regularly rep...

By Jesy Beeson During geopolitical events, market participants turn to CME Group futures and options in larger-than-usual numbers to manage the risk posed by the changing investment climate. The impact of such events can be seen in short-term impacts to prices of equities, particularly E-m...

Gold and silver have been around as means of exchange or hard currency for a lot longer than all of the currencies issued by governments as legal tender. The instruments that trade in the global foreign exchange market have the backing of the full faith and credit of the countries that print t...

In general, three main factors affect the price of gold in the long run: (1) the dollar, (2) the U.S. level of inflation and (3) monetary policy in the United States. Dollar The gold price stably negatively correlates with the Dollar Index. And it is actually normal because gold is dollar-...

The bull market in gold did begin in 2019. At the turn of this century, the Bank of England was in the process of liquidating half its reserves of the yellow metal. The central bank sold around 300 metric tons of gold via an auction that sent the price down to a low of $252.50 per ounce in Aug...

The topic of gold's year-ahead outlook has been the subject of some fairly contentious debates lately. A high-profile precious metal forecast for 2020 has been recently released, and while opinions on what price levels gold will ultimately reach this year vary sharply from analyst to analyst, ...

The two co-chief investment officers of the biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, can't seem to agree with each other about whether the boom-bust cycle as we know it still exists. Even so, both seem to agree - if in an oblique and convoluted way - that gold is headed much hi...

A healthy market often makes a statement. Last week while other commodity prices and markets across all asset classes were moving lower, gold displayed incredible strength. During the height of the global financial crisis, the price of gold dropped like a stone. The price had just made a new h...

A sign of a bull market is when the price of an asset has many reasons to move lower, but the price remains stable or even moves higher. Over recent sessions, the world has become focused on a virus spreading in China and to other countries around the world. When China catches an economic cold...