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(Kitco News) – Bitcoin-U.S. dollar prices are sharply lower and hit a two-month low in early U.S. trading Monday.

(Kitco News) – Gold prices are moderately higher in volatile early U.S. futures trading Monday, after hitting a seven-year high above $1,700.00 overnight.

(Kitco News) – Safe-haven demand continues to grow as gold prices push above $1,700 as investors flee equity and oil markets at the start of the trading week.

(Kitco News) – The Federal Reserve surprised markets earlier in the week with an emergency 50-basis-point interest rate cut. This, in turn, has helped the gold market see its best weekly performance in 11 years.

(Kitco News) – By the time this newsletter will be published today, who knows where the S&P 500 and Dow will be, these are the times we are living in.

(Kitco News) – A seismic event at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng Mine, the world’s deepest gold mine, killed three miners yesterday.

(Kitco News) – An explosion at Amplats smelter in South Africa is expected to knock nearly 1 million PGM ounces off its 2020 guidance and has sent platinum group metals prices into a tizzy.

(Kitco News) – Gold is one of the few markets that has been mostly healthy lately as the coronavirus infects so-called risk assets like stocks, crude oil, industrial metals and now even the heretofore safe-haven U.S. dollar.

(Kitco News) – Gold prices have quickly dropped from double-digit gains seen just a short while ago to double-digit losses in active trading late Friday morning.

(Kitco News) – Gold prices have posted their biggest premium over platinum ever as the yellow metal benefits from lower interest rates amid the coronavirus outbreak, said Commerzbank Friday while hiking its gold forecast.