Sales of U.S. Mint-issued gold coins remain strong in the early months of 2021, continuing the rapid sales pace of 2020. Sales of U.S. Gold Eagle bullion coins exceeded 220,000 ounces in...
After gold delivered its best annual performance in more than a decade last year with a gain of nearly 25 percent, its price has slipped in global financial markets during the early weeks of...
Six weeks into 2021, the U.S. dollar was showing signs of stability after having been crushed in 2020. But, according to one of Wall Street’s most respected international economists, the dollar’s...
A changing investment landscape may present new opportunity for long-term gold investors. Investment market thinking through mid-February in 2021 has been dominated not so much by the COVID-19...
After driving GameStop stock from 19 up to a high of 380, a band of online trading activists harnessed Reddit’s “WallStreetBets” forum to trigger aggressive buying of silver. Over a three-day...
As sales of silver coins and bullion surged in early February, the U.S. Mint announced it would be forced to continue limiting its allocation of silver bullion coins to authorized...
On January 23, 2020, China locked down the city of Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus is widely believed to have originated. Eventually, nearly all of the province of Hubei, home to 56 million...
Sales of U.S. Mint-issued gold bullion coins soared more than five-fold in 2020, reaching their highest level in four years. American Eagle gold coin sales totaled 844,000 ounces across...
When the Federal Reserve Board recognized the threat COVID-19 posed to the economy it moved aggressively last March to slash short-term interest rates to near-zero and pump dollars into the banking...
After a powerful performance in 2020, analysts are split on whether gold can continue to soar. It’s widely anticipated that the global economy will see a recovery in 2021. Tens of...
After soaring nearly 40 percent from a low in March to a record high above $2,000 an ounce in August, gold pulled back 14 percent during autumn. At the end of November, the price of gold dipped below...
Along with a rise in price comes a recognition of gold’s increasingly important role in the global economy. Two leading indexes of commodities prices are significantly boosting their weighting of...