Gold trade

As geopolitical tensions around North Korea continue to dominate the gold market, analysts debate over how much profit taking the yellow metal might see next week after nearing the key $1,300 level on Friday . . . .

Gold prices have climbed by around 8% year to date—close to what they gained for all of last year . . . .

When we hear commentary on why the gold price has moved, we usually hear of U.S. economic or political factors and a move in the U.S. Dollar. Most times these do not precipitate the buying of physical gold . . . .

How the economics of gold and silver can help us understand the challenges facing financial economics and whether we should invest in gold and silver was explored in an inaugural lecture by Professor Brian Lucey, Professor of International Finance and Commodities in Trinity Business School . . . .

Gold traded near a two-week high as the disarray engulfing Donald Trump’s White House boosted the commodity’s allure as a haven, with equities in retreat and investors scaling back the odds of the Federal Reserve tightening policy next month . . . .

The world is full of golden rules. There is one for every field: ethics, communication, fashion. But there is only one that counts, the golden rule of money: “Who has the gold makes the rules" . . . .

The importance of measuring gold imports into the Chinese domestic gold market – which are prohibited from being exported – is to come to the best understanding on the division of above ground reserves in and outside the Chinese domestic market . . . .

The question of the hour is whether the 2016 gains were merely a countertrend rally following a four-and-a-half-year decline from all-time highs in 2011, or the beginning of a new leg in the secular bull market that began in 1999 . . . .

Analysts cited news reports that the Russian central bank bought around 48 tons of gold in October, the biggest monthly gold purchase of this millennium . . . .

As the yuan retreats, China is taking in more gold. The world’s biggest consumer of the precious metal raised bullion imports from Hong Kong in September for the first time in four months as investors sought to diversify their assets on prospects for further currency weakness . . . .