IAUF News and Press, iShares Gold Strategy ETF From 10/23/19

The digital currency markets started slowly in around 2010 when the price of Bitcoin was six cents. When I first heard about the cryptocurrency, it seemed like little more than a video game with a payoff, which I thought was a novel idea. Computer savvy people began mining for Bitcoin. Those...

By Andrew Robinson The so-called "Phase One" of the US-China trade deal appears to be progressing, with China boosting purchases of US agricultural products. The better outlook is keeping a lid on gold while boosting industrial metals, though oil is struggling to benefit. Precious metals...

Passions and opinions in the silver market always run high. Some market participants believe there is a cabal of institutions and governments that hold the price of the metal down. Recently, a handful of traders received government RICO indictments for spoofing or manipulating the price of sil...

Gold broke out above its critical level of technical resistance in June. The price of the yellow metal rose above the July 2016 high at $1377.50 and has not returned to that price. Gold moved to the upside in what was almost a perfect bullish storm for the precious metal. Falling interest rate...

Fed's new QE to push US$ down and gold up If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. Thus despite the protestations to the contrary by Chairman Powell, last week's announcement that the Fed intends to buy $60 billion of bills per month until m...

It’s a commonly held assumption that gold benefits primarily from inflation. If that were entirely true, then there should be no reason for gold to be struggling against the prospects of increasing inflation now that trade relations between the U.S. and China are being patched up. The i...

By Debbie Carlson China has grown to become one of the biggest gold-trading markets, just behind New York and London, and more international investors want access. Much of the rise of China’s gold market comes from the development and growth of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, founded ...

By Andrew Robinson Prospects for a "mini" trade deal between the US and China leading to further progress has lifted agricultural commodities, taken the wind out of gold and left energy markets unimpressed. Turkey's advance into Syria has yet to influence safe-haven asset accumulation. ...

Gold investment demand was strong in the months following gold's decisive breakout to new bull-market highs in late June. The metal's upside momentum fueled big capital inflows, accelerating its gains. But soon after gold's upleg stalled, so did the investment buying. With stock markets still ...

Gold is a commodity and a currency. The yellow metal has a myriad of industrial applications. At the same time, it has a long history as money. Central banks around the world hold gold as part of their foreign currency reserves. At the turn of this century, central banks were net sellers of ...