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Gold is on the way up, says Tom Beck, editor of Portfolio Wealth Global, and sets out several elements investors should look for before buying . . . .

Gold dipped on Tuesday on technical selling, although losses were limited as most investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting that should provide signals on the pace of future monetary tightening . . . .

The elections leading to a hung parliament in the UK have seen a rush into physical gold by investors . . . .

For the US dollar, the past seven months have been a tale of two halves . . . .

Central bankers and investors are grappling with a $100 trillion question: why consumer price inflation remains so low in most parts of the world even as economic growth quickens . . . .

June 6 Gold rose to its highest level in seven weeks on Tuesday as weak economic data in the United States reduced expectations of rapid U.S. interest rate rises this year, pushing the dollar to a seven month-low and lowering U.S. bond yields . . . .

China, the world’s biggest gold market, may boost imports through Hong Kong by about half this year as local investors seek to protect their wealth from currency risks, a slowing property market and volatile stocks, according to the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society . . . .

Gold prices reached an all-time high dollar price of $1,898 per ounce on September 5, 2011. Then began a relentless four-year, 43% plunge that took gold prices to $1,058 on November 27, 2015 . . . .

Last week, the Silver Institute and the research team from GFMS at Thomson Reuters said that silver mine production declined in 2016 for the first time since 2002 . . . .

I have always considered sales of modern gold and silver bullion coins a bellwether on the general health of the global precious metals market . . . .