Is it time to sell gold?

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

As the value of gold shoots up, is it worth raiding your jewellery box, asks Paul Lewis

The US dollar has slid to a four-year-low. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major trading partners’ currencies, has dropped 12% since the start of 2025. Sterling now bu

“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become