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(Kitco News) – Gold prices are holding on to modest gains, just below session highs following disappointing preliminary sentiment data from the U.S. manufacturing and service sectors.

(Kitco News) – Initial weekly U.S. jobless claims fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 211,000 in the week to Saturday, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

(Kitco News) – Gold prices are posting modest gains in early-morning U.S. trading Thursday. Slumping world stock markets today have put a mild safe-haven bid into the gold and silver markets.

(Kitco News) – Bitcoin-U.S. dollar prices are weaker again early Thursday morning, on some normal “backing and filling” on the charts, in an uptrend.

The question being asked this morning by the pundits, with the markets under pressure, is why hasn’t the safety play sparked a gold rally?

(Kitco News) – It is now time to have your say in where you think gold prices are heading in the short-term.

(Kitco News) – Russia’s love affair with gold continues, as the country’s central bank bought another 15.55 tonnes of gold in April.

(Kitco News) – The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a U.S. military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions with Iran, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

(Kitco News) – Investors may be in for “fireworks” this summer if precious metals producers are unable to keep up with what would be very high retail demand should prices drop lower, this according to Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals….

(Kitco News) – Fifty mining fatalities occurred worldwide last year, according to a report released by International Council on Mining and Metals last week.