GOLD is back on the rise again and is closing in on the record levels seen in June as more economic uncertainty drives investors back into safe havens.
The metal reached US$1,260 an ounce yesterday and is just a few dollars shy of the US$1,264.90 record high achieved in June thanks to renewed uncertainty about Europe [...]

SINGAPORE: China’s moves to free up its gold market open the way for foreign players and local banks to tap rising demand for the metal. They also offer citizens a more attractive investment and could boost China’s clout over global prices.
With the Shanghai Composite Index down 20 per cent this year, and gold prices still [...]

Over the past nine years, gold has managed to post successive increases in its annual average price, navigating the choppiest of waters.
In the first six months of this year, against the backdrop of very volatile global equities markets, gold bullion has gained over 13 per cent to finish at US$1,242 per ounce at the end [...]

Gold has been on the minds of investors ever since the world’s financial system went south in 2007 with its safe haven status looking like a godsend.
The seemingly never-ending series of share market corrections and other shocks - the European debt meltdown being just the latest - has only served to enhance the precious metal’s [...]

THE price of gold has charged to a new high of nearly US$1,055 (S$1,466) an ounce amid speculation that it could hit US$2,000 in the next decade.
Local investors are joining a global gold rush by pouring cash into the precious metal owing to inflation fears and concern that major currencies such as the US dollar [...]

LONDON: Gold rose to a record high on speculation that inflation will accelerate and erode the value of the US dollar, boosting the appeal of the precious metal for investors seeking to preserve their wealth.
Gold was also boosted by a sharp drop in the greenback on a report, later denied, that Gulf Arab states were [...]