GOLD

South African workers’ union strikes at platinum mines will continue to pressure an industry already struggling with lower prices and high costs.

Gold rose to $1,250 per ounce on Monday, up $50 from the previous week’s trading ranges, as hedge funds pivoted with interest to the metal.

The U.K. Royal Mint sold out of a gold bullion coin in just two days. Why?

Assets managed by commodity exchange-traded funds saw their biggest decline ever in 2013, according to ETF Securities.

What went wrong and how many billions did the Swiss central bank lose in write-downs on its 1,040 tons of gold reserves?

Gold has had a terrible year, but analysts expect a slightly better outlook for 2014.

Some gold-selling startups have leaned toward accepting bitcoins in payment for gold.

Any stimulus reduction talk will be analyzed for its impact on gold prices, in the last major economic event of the year.

Gold prices have been heavily influenced by ‘paper’ trading of gold contracts, overpowering the dynamics of much smaller physical gold market.

Chinese consumer demand for gold may reach the highest ever for any country in 2013.

A fall in imports of the precious metal helped Asia's third-largest economy post a sharp annual decline in its trade deficit.

Should gold miners bet on gold price upswings in the face of rising production costs, or instead protect themselves from volatility?

After 30 years in charge, Peter Munk is handing the chairmanship to former Goldman Sachs banker John Thornton, who has long experience in China.

Those of you who piled into gold on a Glenn Beck-inspired belief that the U.S. dollar would collapse should meditate on this analysis.

Gold analysts remained negative on the precious metals prospects for the near future.

Gold analysts see glum prospects for a gold price rally, as gold’s most common areas of support and strength have failed.

The country's gold production is growing in leaps, but its miners are suffering from rudimentary mining practices.

The Swiss federal cabinet said such restrictions interfere with the freedom of its central bank to engineer monetary policy.

All markets do not increase in size perpetually, except, perhaps, China's gold market.

Bank analysts weighed in on the latest trends in gold demand and supply.

Consumer demand this year has hit record highs, but Western investors are still apparently bearish on the metal, having fled specialist funds.

Silver Wheaton CEO Randy Smallwood is confident that silver prices will reach a bottom in the near future.

Indian investors favored money-market and equity funds while interest in gold ETFs waned, according to a new report.

Trade deficit rose in October after hitting an 18-month low in September that analysts had described as unsustainable.

A HSBC research note makes explicit what has become increasingly clear to gold investors this year regarding the gold market's most bullish factor.

“Beaten-down” mining stocks are likely to remain unattractive until gold prices rise, which could take months or years.

Outflows from gold-backed specialist funds totaled 48 metric tons, surpassing September and August combined.

Lower gold prices have yet to bring a fresh wave of bargain buying from China and India, whose investors may be turned off by the metal’s volatility.

The major decision throws the world’s largest gold producer into even more uncertainty with respect to its overall mine plans.