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Market Report: Consolidating gains

Gold and silver prices consolidated recent gains this week, both having become overbought short-term, and they now appear to be building a base before an attempt to convincingly attack higher ground, though yesterday's…

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Market Report: Flights to Quality

It is pleasing to see precious metals in favour as 2015 gets underway in earnest. Whilst 'quality' might be a subjective term, it seems to have been applied, in my opinion quite rightly, to gold, silver, platinum and…

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2015: the year of the slump?

2014 ended with two ominous developments: the strength of the US dollar and a collapse in key commodity prices. It is tempting to view both events as one, but the continuing fall in oil prices through December reveals…

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Market Report: A steady start for 2015

Note: GoldMoney is offering a discount of 10% on commission for any purchases of gold in the UK vault until 15 January. See /xmas-exclusive Gold and silver started the year at a muted point, with gold at $1168 and…

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