gold jewelry production economic uncertainty other geopolitical events Trading of gold futures has the most significant effect on today's spot prices. The same is true for all commodities. So the silver price and platinum price behave in a similar manner. General gold news can also influence inves...
The major drivers of the gold market over the last three years was Fed interest rate policy between 2018 and 2019, and the global COVID pandemic in 2020. Global lockdowns, crushed economies, and unemployment at 80-year highs sent gold prices to new records in 2020. Spot gold hitnineall-...
It’s rare to find a simple historical account of the yellow metal that doesn’t involve highly politicized or biased points of view, so I thought I would take a look back at the history of gold’s performance as an investment over the years. In August of 1971, when Richard Nixon ended...
The system lasted for about 50 years and fell into disuse at the end of the 5th century BC when the increased military success of the Carthaginians - who had invaded Spain - allowed an increased supply of gold and silver from Spanish mines, which became the practical currency probably because...
Gold has been used for ages as a hedge against inflation, and it helped keep the world’s currency from imploding. Gold prospectors made it their life’s work to look for rich veins of gold. These were often worth between a hundred thousand and a hundred million dollars...
The Scottsdale Bullion and Coin gold price chart above reflects the price of gold at any given time based on trades and spot prices in the gold market. The chart provides a visual representation of current and historic price fluctuations for gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and can be ad...
Gold Prices by U.S. President (1989-2024) Green Mapped: The Most and Least Green Cities in America Mapped: Carbon Emissions Per Capita, by Country Charted: 150 Years of Corn, Wheat, and Soy Yields in America Mapped: Where the World’s Fish Are Caught, by Ocean ...
the name for the north american theater of the seven years war & was a successful attempt to move the french out of the ohio valley & to stop indian raids on frontier settlements. historical significance: colonists gained pride in their own military strength, felt more disconnected ...
Gold ended the calendar year in the green each year from 2001 to 2007, as measured in virtually every major currency. Just like in 2008 financial crisis, the gold price was already climbing higher well prior to 2020. Prices have risen over 10% in six of the last eight years. The only ...
The chart above shows the price of one ounce of gold since 1974. As you can see, the price has had several large swings over the last few decades. An all-time high in 1980 followed the lows of the 1970s. In recent years, gold has nominally reached even higher, hitting a record $2...