Articles Tagged "gold-backed"

Gold Price Toes The Currency Line

Gold Investing News reports gold price and currency market seem to go hand in hand. Spot gold was steady at $925.90 per ounce in early afternoon, compared with New York’s notional close of $925.35, and was poised for a 1 per cent rise on the week. U.S. gold futures for June delivery fell $1.8 or [...]

Canada’s Centerra Gold Spark

Gold Investing News reports a deal between Centerra Gold, a Canadian company and Kyrgyzstan’s lawmakers. The settlement will raise the state’s share in Canada-based Centerra Gold Inc. (CG.TO), which owns the lucrative Kumtor mine, to 33 per cent from 15.7 per cent previously. In addition to increasing Kyrgyzstan’s role in the Kumtor project, the $100 [...]

Propitious conditions for gold

Gold Investing News reports gold prices fell slightly while the dollar strengthened. According to analysts, optimistic investors read many recent commodity price gains and positive economic readings as an end to the downturn and are starting to unload safe-haven gold. What added to the melee was a firmer dollar, that also weighed on gold prices. [...]

Gold price rebounds

Gold Investing News reports gold price recovers as the dollar rose. Spot gold rose to $913.15/$914.15 an ounce from $906.65 late in New York on Wednesday. Canadian stocks gained too, building on their biggest rally since November, as mining companies rose with gold prices and financial stocks rallied for a second day on speculation that [...]

Safe-haven gold stocks a true asset

Gold Investing News report gold prices settle at a $920 mark after surpassing a $1,000 last month. The current price of gold, which was selling for $250 an ounce in 2001, is just too rich for some advisers, but there are others who insist an allocation to gold remains paramount in these uncertain economic times. [...]

Gold steams ahead as bailouts go global

Gold Investing News reports gold is looking brighter despite the global economic crisis and bail-out. On the stock markets, gold climbed overnight and ended $12 higher. Gold was as much as 2 per cent higher on Thursday after the European Central Bank left interest rates on hold and the Bank of England cut its key [...]

Gold jumps, reaches record highs

Gold Investing News reports spot gold rose to $902.50 since Oct 2008. The price of gold rose to a three-month high, climbing past $900 an ounce in both New York and London for the first time since October, as global equity markets tumbled, boosting demand for a safe harbor. It rose to an all-time high [...]