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Gold futures blast past $1,700/oz. as the global rush into safe haven investments intensifies amid sinking stocks, oil market turmoil and tumbling Treasury rates. More news on: SPDR Gold Trust ETF, iShares Silver Trust ETF, VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF, Commodities news, Stocks on the...
London is the hub of the over-the-counter gold market. At the end of the last century, ironically, it was the United Kingdom that decided that the yellow metal was nothing more than a barbarous relic and an asset of the past. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, Gordon Brown, supervi...
Trading silver can be like riding a psychotic horse through a burning barn at times. In 1980 and 2011, the price of silver traded on either side of $50 per ounce. The move to the upside during those years put silver on the radar for many speculators who lay in the reeds waiting for the next da...
Platinum is a rare metal. The overwhelming bulk of annual production comes from two countries, South Africa and Russia. In South Africa, the output comes from primary production in mines that are deep in the crust of the earth. In Russia, platinum and other platinum group metals are byproducts...
In 2019, the precious metals sector of the commodities market was, by far, the best-performing area in the asset class. The composite of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium rose 28.93% last year. The rise was almost double the level of the second-leading sector, which was energy with a gain ...
The gold market has been heating up as the uncertainty over COVID-19 has been mounting. The price of gold was rising for most of 2019, even before the recent Coronavirus outbreak. The 2019 run-up in gold was different compared with previous bull markets, as it coincided with a stock market ral...
The path of least resistance of the US 30-Year Treasury bond has been higher since October 2018 when the nearby futures contract dropped to a low of 136-16. The low was the lowest price for bonds and the highest level for interest rates since mid-2014. At the June meeting of the US Federal R...
By Gregor Spilker At last, gold bugs have something to celebrate. In February, the yellow metal broke through $1,650, a level not seen since 2013, when gold entered a prolonged bear market. What is driving the gold price higher and how may market fundamentals influence its price in t...
Gold is enjoying an awesome week, surging back above $1600 for the first time in nearly 7 years! That big round psychologically-heavy level is really catching traders’ attention, great improving sentiment. Yet this recent gold surge has proven peculiar. Unlike normal rallies, the buying...
The US dollar and Swiss franc are two of the leading and most respected foreign exchange instruments in the world. The dollar is the leading reserve currency because of the size of the US GDP and the long history of political and economic stability in the United States. The dollar is the leadi...