Gold treads further above $2,000 in record-setting rally as Dollar softens

06-08-2020
Gold futures' prices rose further above $2,000 an ounce on Tuesday, while the American Dollar appears to have hit a stumbling block

Gold’s lustre grows as investors edge on uncertain times

29-07-2020
Precious gold futures' prices had extended their rallies on Tuesday after hitting an all-time closing high on record a day earlier

Gold nears $1,900 an ounce on renewed US-China spat, equity market weakness

24-07-2020
Spot gold prices extend their meteoric rally on Thursday, gaining over 1.3 per cent to just a notch shy of $1,900 an ounce at the day's commodity market closing bell

Precious gold spikes to fresh nine-year peak; silver hits 7-year highs

23-07-2020
Spot gold prices spiked to its highest level in nine years on Wednesday, while the silver futures' prices had also jumped to a 7-year high

Gold smashes through $1,800 psychological barrier as investors bolt for safety

10-07-2020
On Wednesday, the precious gold futures' prices had surged past the psychological barrier of $1,800 an ounce

US Dollar share of reserves up in Q1, 2020 amid pandemic-led stagnation: IMF

02-07-2020
On Tuesday, data released from the International Monetary Fund had revealed that the US Dollar share of reserves shot up over the first quarter of 2020

Gold rises, regains safe-haven bid as pandemic re-emergence fear jitters

22-06-2020
Amid growing uncertainties regarding a pandemic resurgence in the United States, gold futures' prices gained on Friday, while the US gold futures had surpasses a critical psychological barrier of $1,750 an ounce

Precious gold gains on fresh pandemic resurgence fear, dour Fed projection

15-06-2020
On Friday, gold futures' prices had gained 0.2 per cent and registered a weekly rise of 2.7 per cent, the precious metal's biggest weekly percentage gain since April 10th

South African bonds back in demand as high-yield lures foreign investors

07-06-2020
Over the past couple of weeks, South Africa had sold roughly 4 billion South African Rand worth of local bonds to foreign investors

Charlotte’s BAML sees platinum, palladium deficits rise as S. Africa output totters

11-05-2020
Late on Friday, the 8th of May 2020, analysts of the Charlotte-based American multinational investment lender, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a statement that a deficit in platinum and palladium output appeared to be highly likely this year

Fed-fuelled rally mounts precious gold futures to one-month-peak; Dollar dented

10-04-2020
On Thursday, the precious US spot gold futures’ prices had surged more than 2.5 per cent to wrap up the day at $1686.86 an ounce as the US Fed’s mammothlike $2.3 trillion in fresh aid package had begun to disentangle a deeply recessed US economy

King Dollar climbs to three-year peak amid coronavirus; gold loses safe-haven appeal

19-03-2020
On Wednesday, the American Dollar gained against almost all of the major currencies, while emerging market currencies alongside Sterling, New Zealand Dollar and Australian Dollar had hit their multi-year lows

Global stocks slumped as Fed emergency rate-cut prods panic-driven sell-off;oil falls

16-03-2020
On Monday, the 16th of March 2020, during mid-day Asia-Pacific trading hours, a gauge of global equity indices alongside US stocks futures' had been muddling in to the muds

Gold tumbles 4.5%; palladium faces off worst week on record

14-03-2020
On Friday, the 13th of March 2020, it had been another bloodbath for the commodity traders as the precious gold futures’ prices dipped 4 per cent and silver had been on course to post its worst weekly decline since 2011

Wall St. “fear gauge” hits record as Asia-Pacific markets open broadly lower

13-03-2020
On Thursday, the 12th of March 2020, the Cboe Volatility Index, often contemplated as the “fear gauge” of the Wall St. traders, had posted its biggest ever leapfrog on record

Investor swept on worries over recession, bear market as coronavirus wreaks havoc

09-03-2020
a number of withering words for the money markets such as “correction,” “bear market” or “recession” were being used more frequently over the past few weeks

Palladium plunged 13%, gold pummels 4.6% as precious metals join virus-led free fall

01-03-2020
On Friday, a raft of precious metals took heavy headers as palladium was plummeted as much as 10.8 per cent, while the precious safe-haven gold fell as much as 4.6 per cent to mark up its largest intra-day fall in more than seven years

Precious gold fled seven-year peak; pandemic fear looms large

26-02-2020
On Tuesday, the 25th of February 2020, the precious safe-haven spot gold futures’ prices had beaten a hasty retreat, drawing back from a fresh seven-year-peak

Coronavirus kills seventh patient in Italy as pandemic fear grips global equities

25-02-2020
On Monday, the 24th of February 2020, a gauge of global stock indices was hit with heavy whiplashes and the Italy’s MIB FTSE flumped as much as 6 per cent followed by the death of seventh Italian due to coronavirus infection

Foreign inflows into US treasuries hit seven-year-peak in 2019

20-02-2020
On Tuesday, the 18th of February 2020, the US Treasury Department data had shown that the amount of foreign inflows into the US Treasuries through purchases of US Treasury bonds had spiked to a more than seven-year peak

China Coronavirus deaths toll tops 1,000 as investors seek safety on safe-haven gold

11-02-2020
On Monday, the 10th of February 2020, a gauge of global money markets had witnessed another flight-to-safety response

Gold clocks best monthly gain since July 2019 as virus fear bubbles safe-haven appeal

01-02-2020
On Friday, the 31st of January 2020, the precious safe-haven gold futures’ prices gained as much as 1 per cent to wrap up the day at a fresh 6-1/2-year peak at $1589.69 an ounce and posted a monthly gain of 4.78 per cent

Global stocks sinks to two-week low as coronavirus death toll raises to 81

28-01-2020
On Monday, the 27th of January 2020, a gauge of global stock indices was slumped and investors’ appetite seemed to be hitting a rock-bottom

Precious gold gains as safe-haven appeal returns; palladium extends record rally

21-01-2020
On Monday, the 20th of January 2020, at a thin-volume trading day with US markets were closed due to Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, the precious safe-haven metal, gold surges to more than one-week high

Qatar National Bank issues $600 million Formosa Bond

17-01-2020
Doha-based Qatari multinational commercial bank, Qatar National Bank, the largest lender in the Gulf in terms of asset, had launched a $600 million 40-year Formosa Bond as a part of its wider plans to diversify funding sources