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The gold price reached its highest in a month earlier today thanks to a relatively weak US dollar, following the surprisingly low US jobs data on Friday. Silver, platinum and palladium also climbed in...

Gold has begun to climb for the first time in four days as the US dollar comes off seven weekly highs ahead of the December non-farm payrolls data release, later today. Investors have booked profits...

The gold price was doing very well at the beginning of the week. Like the rest of us it had decided to go on a full blown detox and try and rid itself of the effects of paper market toxicity. Alas it...

The gold price has shown itself to be relatively resilient in the first week of 2014, however it is about to face a barrage of headwinds in the coming days and weeks courtesy of the US Federal...

Last week gold had its biggest weekly gain in over 10 weeks, a great start to 2014.Gold was lifted by strong Chinese buying, coin demand and record low speculative positions.It looks as though the...

Yesterday the Bernanke and the Fed took many surprise and announced ‘Dectaper’. Yes, they have reduced the monthly rounds of bond buying by $10 billion to $75 billion.Note, this is...

Jan Skoyles asks how much power governments can have over non-fiat currencies when they are unable to directly control demand and supply.We all know by now what bitcoin is, I’m not going to...

2013 has been a year when markets have been hyper-sensitive to Fed comments in the hope that they will provide some indication over future moves. Today will be the last opportunity this year for...

Yesterday the SPDR Gold Trust saw its biggest outflow since October 21, of 8.70 tonnes. Total holdings now stand at 818.90 tonnes.The gold price climbed overnight, ahead of the FOMC meeting which will...

And so it has arrived, the week of Dectaper. All month, in fact longer, analysts, traders and market commentators have been looking ahead to this very week when the FOMC will meet for Bernanke’s...

Gold fell from its three week high yesterday following the US budget agreement. Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) fell once again, by 0.3% to 833.60 tons, the lowest since January 2009.Even...

This morning the gold price got off to a shaky start, despite having made small gains in the previous session. The price edged up to a one week high, however trading remains subdued as,...

Bitcoin, the darling of libertarian, fiat money avoiders, has plunged nearly 40% in a few short weeks.After an incredible run this year, soaring like a rocket from a bit more than $200 to $1,203...

After 12 years of gains in the gold price, investors are now facing the true reality of unlucky number 13. Gold is set to end the year down for the first time in over a decade. Having hit an all-time...

Yesterday the gold price fell to a five-month low on the back of upbeat economic data and a stronger US Dollar.Once again a release of economic data prompted speculation that tapering would come...

It’s the first Daily Nugget of December and I wish I could bring you some positive news on gold and silver filled with Christmas cheer, but alas I cannot. Last month the gold price fell 5.4%,...