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By Ben Traynor |
May 18, 2012
Wholesale market gold prices climbed as high as $1,594 an ounce during Friday morning's London trading, jumping 1.5% in the first two hours, while Eurozone stocks looked to have stemmed four days of losses despite Greece and Spain seeing negative ratings decisions.
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By Adrian Ash |
May 14, 2012
The price of gold and gold futures dropped yet again Monday morning, recording the seventh drop in nine trading days in May so far as industrial commodities, global stock markets and the euro currency all sank.
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By Ben Traynor |
May 11, 2012
Wholesale market gold prices touched their lowest level since the first week of January Friday, hitting $1,574 an ounce before recovering some ground, while stocks and commodities fell and US Treasury bonds gained.
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By Ben Traynor |
March 20, 2012
Gold bullion prices fell to $1,643 per ounce Tuesday lunchtime in London – 1.0% down on the week so far – as stocks and commodities also fell and US Treasury bonds gained.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
March 9, 2012
Accessing a sustainable, and secure, supply of raw materials is going to become the number one priority for all countries. Increasingly we are going to see countries ensuring their own industries have first rights of access.
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By Ben Traynor |
February 21, 2012
Gold bullion prices jumped to $1,747 per ounce Tuesday lunchtime in London – 1.3% above last week's close – as US markets opened for the first time since Friday to the news that European leaders have reached an agreement on Greece.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
February 15, 2012
Carbon is the stuff of life. It is the foundation, the chemical basis, of every living thing on Earth. Yet because of its pervasive familiarity we all take it for granted. As investors we might want to rethink that.
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By Jon Nadler |
February 8, 2012
Gold prices meandered on either side of the "unchanged" marker this morning and orbited around the $1,745 area as the US dollar did not appear to pierce the 78.50 level on the trade-weighted index following yesterday’s euro-centric optimism-induced sell-off.
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By Ben Traynor |
February 7, 2012
Gold prices fell to a 2-week low of $1,711 per ounce Tuesday lunchtime in London, with stocks, industrial commodities and the Euro also trading lower amid uncertainty over whether Greece is headed for default.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
January 10, 2012
Gold has risen for the first time in three days. Asian stocks and the euro also gained today before Germany's Merkel meets with the IMF's Lagarde in Berlin, a day after meeting France's Sarkozy on the Greek and euro-zone debt.
