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Ahead of major tech earnings later, Meta results are lighting up the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.97% for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.40% is also up as investors take a glass-half full view of the ...

Gold prices post a golden cross, settle at highest since April

Gold prices on Friday marked their first settlement above $1,900 an ounce since April, finding support from a weekly decline in the U.S. dollar in the wake of data showing a slowdown in U.S. inflation...

Why gold prices may be headed for record highs this year

Gold recently climbed to its highest prices in nearly seven months, feeding expectations that the precious metal is on track to notch record highs this year, after closing out 2022 with a modest loss....

Gold, silver kick off 2023 by advancing to highest levels in months

Gold prices kicked off the first trading session of 2023 on Tuesday by advancing to fresh 6-month highs, bolstered by lower bond yields and expectations about more central-bank buying. Other precious ...

Gold prices end higher, pare their loss for the week

Gold futures ended higher on Friday after a volatile week that saw prices climb to a nearly six-month high but post a weekly decline, pressured by expectations for higher U.S. interest rates. Price ac...

Gold prices log highest finish in just over a week after U.S. inflation data

Gold prices on Friday marked their highest finish in just over a week, after the U.S. November producer-price inflation came in slightly higher than expected. Price action February gold GC00, -0.07%  ...

Bitcoin’s Crash Could Bring New Life to Gold

For the past few years, the gold industry has been on the defensive against a new threat: cryptocurrencies. No longer. Advocates of crypto argued that Bitcoin was a better version of gold because its ...

Dow ends nearly 200 points lower as investors weigh ISM manufacturing and inflation data, await jobs report

U.S. stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Thursday after the ISM manufacturing index showed American factory activities contracted to a 30-month low in November. Stocks had opened mostly h...

Opinion: Don’t cheer yet — rising gold prices are likely to reverse

Long-suffering gold bugs will likely have to suffer a while longer. That’s because gold traders on the whole have not thrown in the towel and thereby given up on the yellow metal GC00, +0.54%. Only wh...

What’s next for markets after Fed’s 4th straight jumbo rate hike

What’s next for markets now that the Federal Reserve has delivered its fourth and possibly final jumbo rate increase of 75 basis points? Well, a lot, actually. A sometimes tumultuous third-quarter ear...

Silver is outperforming gold this month, and that’s just the start

Silver has underperformed gold this year, but that could soon change. “A real scarcity has been developing in the silver market,” said Keith Weiner, founder and president of precious metals based inve...

Buy Newmont stock for its deep value and ‘very attractive’ dividend, UBS says

Shares of Newmont Corp. were little changed Tuesday, despite selloffs in gold futures and the broader stock market, after UBS analyst Cleve Rueckert said it was time to buy, given “compelling” valuati...

Why an epic U.S. dollar rally could be a ‘wrecking ball’ for financial markets

The U.S. dollar is on a tear, hitting historic highs versus major rivals and sending ripples through global financial markets as investors see the Federal Reserve pressing interest rates higher in its...

Silver tumbles to 2-year low as precious metals sell off again

Precious metals prices fell again on Thursday as gold tumbled to its lowest level in roughly 6 weeks, while silver hit its lowest in more than two years as investors bet that interest rates will remai...

‘There’s no Fed pivot’: Wall Street finally gets the message as stocks swoon after Powell speech

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s brief, but blunt Jackson Hole speech on Friday sparked a sharp selloff in stocks and other financial assets as Wall Street reacted to his vow to bring inflatio...

Gold is down 15% from its record high but here’s why it may still be key to a diversified portfolio

Two years after gold’s rise to its highest-ever price, the metal doesn’t have a lot to show for it. It has failed to regain ground above the $2,000 level, prompting investors to question its ability t...

Gold prices log a 4th straight loss to end at a 3-week low

Gold futures gave up early gains on Thursday to suffer a fourth straight session loss, with prices settling at their lowest in three weeks on the back of strength in the U.S. dollar, as investors dige...

Commodity price declines may shape Fed’s rate-hike path, says economist

A significant downturn in commodity prices could give the Federal Reserve cover to change its aggressive pace of planned interest rate hikes, according to a report from Capital Economics.   The centra...

Gold prices settle at their lowest level of the year as the dollar index climbs toward a 20-year high

Gold on Tuesday fell below the key $1,800-an-ounce level to settle at its lowest price so far this year, while silver futures ended at a two-year low, on back of a rise in the U.S. dollar index toward...

Gold falls for the week after a dip below $1,800, as silver settles its lowest price in 2 years

Gold futures on Friday briefly dipped below the key $1,800-an-ounce level — posting a loss for the week, while silver prices dropped to their lowest finish since July 2020. The weakness in precious me...

Gold prices down a second week as recession fears drive copper to biggest weekly loss in a year

Gold and silver prices edged up for the session on Friday, but end lower for a second straight week, as copper posted its biggest weekly percentage loss in a year. What are prices doing? August gold  ...

Dow tumbles as inflation reading triggers market shock waves: What investors need to know

From Wall Street to Main Street, fears that the U.S. economy could be sliding into 1970s-style “stagflation” have been percolating. References to the sticky situation appeared in news headlines all we...

Gold books worst day in 2 months, after suffering biggest monthly loss since September

Gold futures finished sharply lower Monday, recording their sharpest daily decline in about two months, while building on an April retreat that left the precious metal with its worst monthly performan...

Gold prices settle at a 2-month low as investors sidestep the metal for more attractive safe havens

Gold futures on Monday posted their lowest finish since late February, with the traditional haven failing to find support as investors dumped equities and other assets perceived as risky, while jumpin...

Kinross Gold to sell off 100% of its Russian assets to Highland Gold Mining

Kinross Gold Corp. KGC, K, +0.55% announced Tuesday an agreement to sell all of its Russian assets for a total of $680 million in cash to Highland Gold Mining. The Toronto-based gold miner said the sa...

Bitcoin could reach $1.3 million in this scenario, VanEck says

Bitcoin could reach a price of $1.3 million while gold may top $31,000 per ounce, if the assets become the sole reserve asset across the globe, respectively, according to a new report.  As the U.S. an...

A death cross for the S&P 500 is nearing as inflation fears, Russia’s Ukraine offensive rattles stock-market investors

The S&P 500 index is closing in on a death cross, an ominous chart pattern that underscores the downtrend suffered in an asset. A death cross appears when the 50-day moving average crosses below t...

Opinion: Gold prices have been surging, but the rally is on shaky ground

Gold’s path of least resistance over the near term is down. That’s because the gold market timing community is overwhelmingly bullish right now. That’s a bad sign from a contrarian point of view. It m...

Can gold rally past $2,000? Precious metal rises as Russia’s assault on Ukraine intensifies

Gold futures settled higher Thursday, resuming their climb as fighting in Eastern Europe intensified, with hope dimming of successful talks to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “The Ukraine conflict ha...

Dow surges nearly 800 points and aims for best day in over a year as Nasdaq, S&P 500 erase weekly losses and angst over Russia-Ukraine clash gives way to buying

U.S. stock benchmarks were trading sharply higher Friday as investors who were cautious about buying at the onset of the military clash in Eastern Europe were turning eager to hunt down bargains. The ...

Dow futures sink over 700 points as Putin authorizes invasion, explosions heard near Ukraine’s Kyiv

U.S. stock-index futures were tumbling Wednesday night, extending an earlier decline on Wall Street, as Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a “special military operation” in Ukraine. CNN on We...

What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...