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published Sep 4, 2017 5:37:51 PM, by Andreea Papuc (Bloomberg) — Gold and the yen maintained gains in early Asian trading as the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the threat from North Korea. S&P 500 Index futures were little changed, with the cash market closed on Monday for

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published Oct 4th 2016, 9:28 pm, by Luzi Ann Javier and Eddie van der Walt (Bloomberg) — The trickle of investors exiting gold in recent months has grown into a torrent. Gold futures slumped by the most in almost three years on Tuesday amid speculation that the period of easy

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published Jun 19th 2016, 8:24 pm, by Jasmine Ng (Bloomberg) — Gold tumbled as a poll showed a tilt in favor of Britain remaining in the European Union just days before a historic vote, hurting demand for haven investments. Bullion for immediate delivery fell as much as 1.1 percent to

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published Jun 2nd 2016, 8:07 pm, by Emma O’Brien (Bloomberg) — Asian equities tracked the U.S. rebound, rallying as the S&P 500 Index’s climb to a seven-month high bolstered optimism ahead of jobs data that’s likely to color speculation around Federal Reserve policy. Gold extended its slump. Japanese shares drove

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published May 2nd 2016, 3:00 pm, by Jeremy Herron and Joseph Ciolli (Bloomberg) — U.S. shares rose the most in two weeks and the dollar weakened to the lowest in almost a year as traders lowered expectations for higher interest rates as manufacturing slowed last month. Emerging-market assets retreated with

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©2016 Bloomberg News O47MOMSYF01V (Bloomberg) — Gold-mining companies that are seeing their shares surge the most in decades are still cheap, based on historic measures of their reserves. An index of large producers, including Barrick Gold Corp. and Goldcorp Inc., has gained a whopping 87 percent in the past three

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1JL936KLVRA (Bloomberg) — Gold surged to the highest level in more than two months as demand for haven assets strengthened due to a global retreat in stocks and a renewed slump in oil, with investors scaling back bets about the pace and timing of U.S. interest rate increases.

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©2015 Bloomberg News NWUJGTSYF01S (Bloomberg) — If you’re looking for a sign on what gold investors are expecting from this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, look no further than open interest. The measure, which tallies total contracts outstanding, shows traders are holding more gold futures than at any time since November

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©2015 Bloomberg News NW8EEE6KLVRO (Bloomberg) — Gold is starting to shed its reputation as a dead asset, and bulls can thank signs that the U.S. economy is starting to sputter for the boost. The metal climbed above its 200-day moving average on Wednesday for the first time in about five

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUUPGX6KLVR9 (Bloomberg) — The biggest collapse in commodity prices in a generation is giving some investors the best returns of any asset class. Over the past 12 months, eight of the 10 best-performing U.S. exchange-traded funds were securities that benefited from declines in raw-material prices, with five

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