Gold

Gasp. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD), the world's largest gold-backed exchange traded fund, is lower by 2.17% in the fourth quarter. What Happened To GLD Some of the air has come out of the gold trade as the dollar has remained peskily sturdy and as investors have gravitated toward riskier...

Bitcoin will overtake gold in terms of market capitalization by 2028 and be worth over $1 million, one of the cryptocurrency’s earliest proponents Bobby Lee suggested in a series of tweets. What Happened “Gold is about $8 trillion today, which is [50 times] the worth of Bitcoin,”...

In the third quarter, gold jewelry demand slumped. So did appetite for bullion bars and coins, but exchange traded funds, such as the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) picked up the slack. What Happened In a note out Tuesday, the World Gold Council confirmed global gold ETFs offset weakness in the...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened On Nov. 6, 1907, a ship carrying $7 million in gold arrived from London to revive the floundering U.S. economy. Where The Market Was The Dow Jones Industrial Average was in the midst of...

Lower interest rates and negative-yielding debt around the world are among the factors contributing to investors renewed interest in precious metals and the related exchange traded funds this year. When the conversation on precious metals ETF is reborn, it usually drifts toward funds such as the...

Gold is one of this year's best-performing commodities. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD), the world's largest gold-backed exchange traded fund, confirms as much: it's up nearly 16% in 2019.  What Happened A variety of factors are boosting gold prices this year and prompting...

Like a playoff baseball game with lots of twists and turns, we’ll probably have to go inning-by-inning as news trickles out today on trade talks. Whether the last at-bat is a strikeout or a solid base hit (a home run seems unlikely) could help determine whether this early rally in stock...

… but bonds, gold, and stocks aren't there to hear it, does it make a sound? Yesterday, Fed Head Jay Powell waxed dovish once again, promising to keep the expansion going, add to the central bank's balance sheet, and again hinted that economic drag from outside the U.S. could justify...

By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net Originally published on Sat Sep 28 for our ElliottWaveTrader members: With the various charts we track unable to complete five waves up off the low struck two weeks, it would seem that we can count all of those charts as having just completed a...

In 2019, no one should need any convincing that advisors and investors love cheap exchange traded funds. Usually, it's a case of “the cheaper, the better.” What Happened For the uninitiated, the latest example of cheap works is the SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust (NYSE: GLDM). GLDM, came...

To start the week, a key manufacturing index fell to its lowest level since 2009. Precious metals, including gold, silver and particularly palladium, took it on the chin. Crude oil fell 3% to below where it was before the attack on Saudi oil fields. Despite all that, the stock market rallied Monday...

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Gold's recent rally is providing predictable benefits to some other popular exchange traded funds, those being miners products, including the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX). What Happened Bullion is being bolstered by global central banks on multiple fronts. Not only are central...

Most of the exchange traded funds that hit 52-week highs on Thursday were newer products or fixed income funds, but outside of those groups, a slew of gold ETFs, including the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) joined the party. What Happened GLD, the world's largest ETF backed by physical holdings...