Gold and silver bounced around a bit during the week but managed to end up on top when all was said and done. Despite it being the end of August, a time of the year where the trading atmosphere is usually quiet, this week has featured a number of different news stories. The ongoing violence […]

When this first full week of August initially kicked off, it was quickly shaping up to be a fairly dismal week for precious metals. Thanks to some stronger economic reports from around the world, gold and silver came out of the gate this week posting some fairly heavy and consistent losses. Adding insult to injury, […]

Gold and silver had a relatively rough week, with a 5 day spread of ups and downs. The two major news stories of the week revolved around the US economy in the form of a FOMC meeting as well as the latest US jobs report. Some additionaly economic news was released earlier during the week, […]

Gold and silver experienced mixed fates this week as gold made small gains and silver posted some modest losses. The two most important and watched news stories of the week included economic data out of China and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve addressing the US Congress. As you can already tell from the minor […]

While investors started the week hoping that metals would rebound from the massive losses they posted late last week, things turned out quite differently. Thanks to some comments by the President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve and weak demand out of Asia, gold and silver took massive hits for the second straight week. Each and […]

Gold and silver took huge hits this week in the wake of a monetary policy meeting that took place in the United States. Both metals lost unprecedented amounts of value despite the meeting itself yielding no major policy shifts. Friday saw the metals bounce back, but only by a very very small margin. Hopefully enough […]

Gold and silver did a lot of moving this week, but all in all they finished on Friday close to where they started the week on Monday. Asian markets were a recurring theme this week much like they always are, and just as you would have expected the news was mostly negative for the region. […]

Gold and silver were looking to have positive weeks by the end of the day on Thursday, but with the news Friday brought, metals almost immediately did away with all their gains. Troubles throughout Europe and Asia were also mainstays in the headlines this week, though these stories helped precious metals more than they hurt […]

Gold and silver did a lot of moving around this week, but at the end of the day they finished it not too far from where they started. While Thursday saw gold and silver jump forward right out of the gate, Friday saw quite the opposite and early morning losses almost completely cancelled out Thursday’s […]

Gold and silver exceeded expectations this week for the first time in a long time. Despite many news stories that, at face value, looked to be negative for gold and silver, both metals survived and even came out with positive weekly gains. Though the gains realized by gold and silver this week are nothing to […]