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...Together with “blistering” demand from central banks, according to the WGC, Chinese demand helped push the gold price to record highs last month and keep it above $2,000 per troy ounce this year....
...And that King Charles III coin I crave from the Royal Mint is priced at a 24 per cent premium to the gold price. So allow me to let you in on a secret....
...Gold reached an all-time high, rising as much as 1.9 per cent to a peak of $2,075.09 a troy ounce, surpassing the previous intraday peak it had set in August 2020....
...Ethan WuLeprechauns across the world were delighted on Friday as gold, the shiny metal we all love, hit an all-time high: $2,152.30 per troy ounce....
...Zimbabwe produced 35 tonnes of gold last year and the central bank is a leading buyer via a gold trading subsidiary. Last week, prices for gold futures matched an all-time high of $2,072 a troy ounce....
...Gold prices collapsed from a high of $1,920 per troy ounce in 2011 after the financial crisis to nearly $1,200 two years later....
...Record levels of gold purchases by central banks around the world were the driving force behind the metal’s rally since November, with prices rising from $1,615 per troy ounce to about $2,000....
...As a result of exceptional central bank buying and an expected return of inflows for gold-backed ETFs, UBS raised its year-end target for the precious metal to $2,100 per troy ounce, up from $1,850 previously...
...Adjusted for the present day value of the dollar would be close to $2,700 per troy ounce. That leaves a lot of road to run for gold prices now, he argues....
...Spot gold prices fell 2 per cent to trade at $1,939.50 per troy ounce after briefly touching their highest level since March 2022 on Monday....
...Talk of the increasing potential for investors to hedge against inflation by buying real assets comes as gold rose to its highest level in more than a month on Monday, reaching a peak of $1,998 a troy ounce...
...Gold, which typically advances during periods of uncertainty, rose as much as 1.2 per cent to $1,998 a troy ounce, reaching its highest level in more than a month, before falling back to $1,977, a 0.1 per...
...The price of gold has declined 6.1 per cent this year to $1,782 a troy ounce on Wednesday. Bitcoin has meanwhile doubled in price to a record high of more than $67,000 this week....
...Just like it is on the 24-ounce bottle of Dove Body Wash, which is now just 22 ounces. [MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more about all these stories at FT.com....
...Gold has usually been viewed by investors as a hedge against broad-based price rises. After rising to a year-high of $1,916 a troy ounce in May, it has fallen back to $1,827....
...Gold was trading up about 1.4 per cent at $1,821 a troy ounce....
...On Wednesday, it touched $1,887 a troy ounce, a four-month high, dipping only slightly by Friday to $1,878....
...US marker West Texas Intermediate rose 1 per cent to $68.24 per barrel. Gold fell 0.7 per cent to $1,790 per troy ounce....
...HSBC is therefore forecasting that the price of silver will be down to about $24.90 an ounce by the end this year — it was $25.92 at the end of April — due in part to lower investor demand....
...The yield on the 10-year US Treasury rose almost 0.1 percentage points to 1.3 per cent, its highest level since February last year, while gold sank 1.3 per cent to under $1,800 a troy ounce....
...Goldman Sachs this week lifted its 12-month forecast for gold to $2,300 per troy ounce, from $2,000....
...The price of the haven asset has pushed 24 per cent higher this year, peaking at a record of $2,072 an ounce in August....
...The gold/silver ratio reached its all-time peak on March 18, when the silver price collapsed to $11.94. At that point the spot price of a troy ounce of gold was worth 126.5 ounces of silver....
...The fall in the miners’ shares follows a 24 per cent rally in gold this year to a record high of $2,072 on August 7. Gold last traded at $1,986 a troy ounce....
...rose above $1,900 a troy ounce....
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