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By Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
April 15, 2013
Hedge funds and other speculators added to bullish gold bets as the metal slumped into a bear market and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned the retreat is accelerating after the longest rally in nine decades.
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By Bloomberg News |
April 15, 2013
China’s economic growth unexpectedly lost momentum in the first quarter as gains in factory output and consumption weakened, driving stocks and commodities lower on concern global expansion will slow.
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By Robert McCurtain |
April 7, 2013
A gauge of stock market cycle maturation has been the public's willingness to buy into a bull trend, or sell into a bear.
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By Joseph Ciolli, Bloomberg |
April 5, 2013
The dollar declined to the lowest level in more than a week against the euro after U.S. employers added fewer jobs in March than forecast, fueling speculation growth in the world’s biggest economy is slowing.
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By Brendan Murray and Scott Lanman, Bloomberg |
April 5, 2013
After watching Ben S. Bernanke take unprecedented steps for four years to rebound from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the Bank of Japan is signaling that the Federal Reserve’s full-throttle approach to stimulus is the way to end 15 years of deflation.
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By Nicholas Larkin and Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
March 12, 2013
Gold’s worst start to a year in a quarter century and the biggest sales by investors on record are increasing concern that bullion’s longest rally since the end of World War I is ending.
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By Austin Kiddle |
February 27, 2013
As traders have already cut their long positions or added to their short positions, it did not take much for the gold price to rally back from a recent low level of $1,554.30.
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By Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg |
February 15, 2013
Gold traders are the most bearish in more than a year on mounting speculation that improving economic growth from the U.S. to China will curb demand for this year’s worst-performing precious metal.
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By Debarati Roy and Phoebe Sedgman, Bloomberg |
February 15, 2013
Billionaire investors George Soros and Louis Moore Bacon cut their stakes in exchange-traded products backed by gold last quarter as futures dropped the most in more than eight years. John Paulson maintained his holding.
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By Austin Kiddle |
February 15, 2013
Expectations of faster economic growth in the G20 countries and the aversion of major financial disasters have reduced the safe-haven demand for gold, pushing people to load up on risky assets such as equities.
