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A former trader at UBS Group AG was charged with conspiracy and fraud over his suspected role in manipulating the price of precious metals.

The coming gold and silver moves in the next few months will really surprise most investors as market volatility increases substantially.

Gold continues to build towards its breakout from a massive 4-year long base pattern. This is likely to occur when the dollar breaks down from its topping pattern, and is expected to lead to a bullmarket that will dwarf the last one from 2001 through 2011, and may be given a tailwind when the cry...

Physical gold is about to mark its return at the center of the settlement system for oil transactions – a first step toward a reintroduction at the center of the international monetary system.

Mark Mobius is sensing danger in the explosive growth of cryptocurrencies: “You’re going to get a reversion back to gold because people are going to wonder, can I really trust these currencies?”

Getting one’s money out of the bank – at least a large portion of it – is one thing, but what is one to do with it? The preferred investment, the most reassuring, according to observations and some polls, is real estate.

Oil exporters such as Russia and Iran will soon be able to bypass the US dollar — and convert their yuan into gold.

Including this year, gold has risen in 14 of the past 17 years at a 9.4% compound annual rate, far surpassing returns from stocks.

The opportunity to purchase gold and silver at reasonable prices is soon ending. There just won’t be enough gold to satisfy the coming demand.

Silver is currently trading around $17 an ounce. This is around 34% of its 1980 all-time high of $50. However, this is an incomplete representation of what silver is really trading at, relative to US dollars. When you look at the silver price, relative to US currency (the amount of actual US doll...

Last week featured two unusual stories on gold — one strange and the other truly weird. These stories explain why gold is not just money but is the most politicized form of money.

S&P 500 volume has been shrinking with respect to Gold volume, indicating growing interest in the Gold asset class versus the S&P 500.

The risk of a major war is now very high. The dilemma is that this is just one of many problems with potentially catastrophic consequences that the world is currently facing.

A 1988 edition of The Economist magazine predicted a world currency by the year 2018.

A new nail should be driven in the savers’ coffins, according to the very serious Reuters press agency: the freezing of bank accounts in order to avoid any bank run.

The Bundesbank today announced it had "completed its gold transfer process earlier than originally planned."