Mint State Gold

Jim Cook Interviews Ted Butler - Cook: A lot of silver investors are frustrated these days. Can you give them any hope? ; Butler: I'd be lying if I said I wasn't . . . . Theodore Butler

Spot Gold: Retail trader data shows 80.0% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders long to short at 3.99 to 1. The number of traders . . . . Richard Snow for Markets Writer

The sell-off on gold continues with the precious metal down around $30 in less than a week. Gold is under pressure from a resurgent US dollar, buoyed by last Friday’s . . . . Nick Cawley

Factoring in the central bank’s reserves (608.8 tonnes) and an import duty of 10%, the domestic value of the gold stocks at most of the known sources in the . . . . Banikinkar Pattanayak

No one likes to lose money, even if you have billions to spare. It’s why the prospect of a bear market – a prolonged downturn which sees stock . . . . Jeff Desjardins

Silver markets rallied a bit during the trading session on Wednesday, reaching towards the $14.85 level, an area . . . . Christopher Lewis

India's gold imports spiked by 54% to $3.97 billion in April from $2.58 billion in the same month last . . . . Scrap Register

Gold will be an attractive safe-haven asset as rising trade tensions weaken the U.S. economy and drag down the U.S. dollar . . . . Neils Christensen

A full-scale trade war between the US and China is closer than ever after Beijing hit back with retaliatory . . . . Adam Button

Neil Pereira, principal investment officer of the International Financial Corporation (IFC), shared his . . . . Sarah Abu-Shaaban