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(Kitco News) – Gold has broken higher out of its prior trading range, said George Gero, managing director with RBC Wealth Management. Comex August gold has traded as high as $1,317.80 an ounce early Monday, its most muscular level since late March.

(Kitco News) – Gold prices are posting double-digit gains and hit a nine-week high in early-morning U.S. trading Monday. Safe-haven demand remains in play to start the trading week and the month, as global stock markets are selling off.

(Kitco News) – Bitcoin-U.S. dollar prices are firmer early Monday. Bulls remain in overall near-term technical control amid a price uptrend still in place on the daily chart.

(Kitco News) – The idea for gold-backed currency got a nod of approval from the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who proposed a common trading currency pegged to gold for all of East Asia.

(Kitco News) – A bigger move in gold is coming when the market “internalizes” a “no trade deal” scenario, said Scotiabank, pointing to escalating tensions between the U.S. and China impacting global growth and inflation outlooks.

(Kitco News) – (Kitco News) – Elon Musk said a couple of years ago that really lithium-ion batteries was a misnomer. It should be really called nickel-iron, and that’s because that’s the energy density of a battery.

(Kitco News) – Tesla is currently working with third-party recyclers to dispose of spent batteries from its cars but says it is developing its own battery recycling system.

(Kitco News) – Any way you look at it, bitcoin is more valuable than precious metals as a form of money and is expected to one day become the dominant global currency, this according to best-selling author James Altucher, managing director of Formula C…

(Kitco News) – Goldplat is trying to find a buyer for the mine.

(Kitco News) – Both Patagonia Gold and Hunt Mining operate in Argentina. Hunt runs a silver mine in the country that it acquired from Coeur in May 2016.