precious metals

Sept. 9 -- Puru Saxena, chief executive officer of Puru Saxena Wealth Management, talks about President Barack Obama's jobs plan and the impact of the U.S. economic outlook on investment strategy.

Fears of inflation and global turmoil have sent precious metals surging, with gold trading at all-time highs above $1,500 an ounce.

How much further can it climb? - Fears of inflation and global turmoil have sent precious metals surging, with gold trading near all-time highs and close to $1,500 an ounce.

How much further can it climb?

Gold and silver prices declined slightly on the week, as measured by the closing London PM Fix prices.A Gold finished the week at $1,411.50 for a loss of $15.50 while silver declined fractionally by 33 cents to close at $34.10.A However, as markets assessed the impact of a slowing world economy, higher inflation, higher oil prices and the massive ...

Gold prices surged above $1,400 an ounce Tuesday as a weaker dollar pushed investors into the safe haven of precious metals.

The big news is once again that the Euro zone is in trouble. Ireland has rather bizarrely decided to take a bail out loan that it claimed that it never wanted, but that's not the really, really big news.

So the Fed decides that quantitative easing was going to boost the economy, as if the way to prove that youa re really clever is to do the thing that wasna t working before, just all over again.A This is naturally going to give precious metals a boost as investors realize that whether or not QE2 works for the economy, ita s definitely going to work ...

Precious metals rallied for a second consecutive day on Friday as the U.S dollar dipped and gold prices surged toward $1,360 an ounce.

In U.S. stocks, the major indexes were ...

Last week I tried to explain the theory that gold wasn't actually that high, the dollar was just weak.A So as to stop the hate mail, chair throwing, death threats and broken windows I'd like to point out that this is not a reason for not holding gold.

Precious metals rallied Friday, capping a third straight week of gains. A slumping dollar and expectations of quantitative easing from the Fed continued to drive gold to new records and silver to fresh 30-year highs...

Precious metals rallied for a second straight week as gold reached an all-time record of $1,301.60 an ounce while silver hit a fresh 30-year high.

In other markets, crude oil gained with other commodities while U.S. stocks surged. Major indexes closed...