12 June 2024 By Avery Booker, Jing Daily: In recent months, China has witnessed a rise in fake gold (假黄金) scams, defrauding thousands of consumers. These frauds often involve the sale of inferior or artificial gold marketed online as “999 gold,” the purest form containing 99.9% of the yellow metal. This uptick in fraudulent activity […]
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10 June 2024 By Heather Altamirano, Yahoo!Finance: The U.S. government’s spending habits have reached a new record, and it’s currently more than $34.5 trillion in debt. But owing money is nothing new — it’s a part of the country’s historical narrative. The U.S. has been in debt since its inception, borrowing $75 million from domestic
10 June 2024 By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals Exchange: Silver’s Recent Performance Silver recently broke a key resistance level of $30 per ounce, marking the first time in over a decade it has reached this price. The last time silver surpassed $30, it quickly rose to nearly $50 per ounce in 2011. Despite a recent
16 May 2024 From Yahoo! Finance: Who’s stockpiling gold? Gold has long been viewed as the ultimate financial asset, and never more so than during times of uncertainty and financial crisis. While we no longer use the “gold standard” to determine the value of currencies, the precious metal is still incredibly useful. It’s held by
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14 May 2024 By Huileng Tan, Business Insider: Gold prices are on a tear recently thanks to strong buying by central banks — a signal that the precious metal is increasingly seen as a geopolitical hedge. Last week, a top International Monetary Fund official pointed to gold’s role in a potential fragmentation of the global economic and financial
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From Market News & Insights A Paradigm Shift in Japan’s Gold Market By Bruce Ikemizu, Representative Director, Japan Bullion Market Association In the past, before China appeared on the world gold market, Japan stood as one of the largest gold importers globally. During the 1980s and 1990s, my primary role in physical gold trading at
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By William Edwards, Business Insider: The godfather of the inverted yield curve warns a recession is likely coming in 2024 — and shares the 4 reasons why a downturn will be harder to avoid than last year. Cam Harvey, the economist who discovered the Treasury yield curve’s ability to forecast recessions, is reiterating his call
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From SchiffGOLD.com: At the current price, silver is a real bargain. Gold went on a run late last week, setting an all-time record high last Friday and breaking the $2,100 level for a brief time in overseas trading Sunday night. Silver also rallied but continues to lag behind gold. In fact, silver looks significantly under-priced
By The Silver Institute Press Releases: Silver Market Expected to Register Another Sizeable Structural Deficit (November 15, 2023 – New York) – Silver Industrial demand is expected to grow 8% to a record 632 million ounces (Moz) this year. Key drivers behind this performance include investment in photovoltaics, power grid and 5G networks, growth in
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By Mike Unser, CoinNews.net: In October, sales of bullion coins from the United States Mint surged significantly, with triple-digit percentage gains for the Mint’s flagship American Gold Eagles and robust double-digit increases for the bureau’s core American Silver Eagles. Further, their year-to-date totals are already higher than each coin’s sales in all of 2022. Last
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