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Yesterday the gold price hit a two-week high ($1,324.40) thanks to a healthy mixture of safe-haven demand, a weaker US dollar index and, of course, perceptions over the FOMC. Thursday gave market...

Yesterday the much anticipated FOMC’s minutes from their March meeting was released. Following the FOMC’s announcement last month, and Yellen’s comments that the committee might look...

According to many analysts surveyed at the beginning of 2014, this year was not supposed to be a good one for silver. In fact, in January we reported that many silver forecasts saw the silver price...

Despite a sharp jump in equities and low demand in China, the gold price jumped up by 1% this morning thanks to technical buying post rising above $1,300. Safe haven demand, due to events in the...

Gold’s drop last month was, in part, thanks to comments from Yellen that the FOMC would look at raising interest rates by 2015, due to the economic recovery. The poor jobs data on Friday seemed...

Later today the US March non-farm payroll data will be released. The gold price has dropped lower ahead of the release, as it seems to do every month. This latest reading is expected to be the...

Platinum and Palladium are, arguably, the more exciting of the precious metals at the moment. Not only are they industrial metals (always interesting when areas of industry are growing) but that they...

For the first time in three days the gold price rose this morning, on the back of hope that the low price will spur gold buying in China.For the first time in the last week gold for immediate delivery...

In the latest episode of the world’s first crowd-funded financial news program, Jan Skoyles talks to Hakim Mamoni of SeedCoin.in on the value of cryptocurrencies.Hakim believes that cryptos...

This morning the gold price hit a new seven-week low and yesterday posted its first monthly drop of 2014.Bullion is out of favour at the moment thanks to riskier assets such as equities gaining...

Gold has been trading near a six-week low this morning and is set for its first monthly decline since the beginning of the year. On Friday the gold price fell to $1,285.34, a six-week low.Since...

Yesterday the Gold price fell to a six-week low and this morning it is holding just below $1,300/oz, having fallen below the key level early this morning. As we explained earlier in the month, the...

The gold price remains in a narrow range this morning as equity markets and emerging currencies continue to struggle but speculators are cautious ahead of the non-farm payrolls data tomorrow.Platinum...

Gold extended losses yesterday after the announcement from the US Federal Reserve that stated monthly bond purchases would be further reduced by $10 billion, from $65 billion to $55 billion. Overall...

The flow of gold from West to East has been well documented in the last year as ETF outflows left holdings at levels not seen since 2008, whilst physical demand in the East continued to break...

Gold futures climbed to $1,392.60 on the Comex yesterday, a six-month high, following the vote in Crimea to become a part of Russia. However this morning they have fallen by about 1 percent ahead of...