Articles Tagged "government"

Dollar Woes & Gold Highs

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News The price of gold has touched an all-time high for a third consecutive day – after a continued decline in the dollar kept it attractive to investors. Gold reached $1,058 an ounce on Thursday, powering past Wednesday’s high of $1,048.4. On Tuesday, it passed the $1,033.9 an [...]

Gold Price Holding Its Ground

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News Gold, despite losing some of its appeal as a safe-haven asset amid sentiment the worst of the financial crisis may be over, is holding its ground on expectations of long-term inflation once the economy reheats. But how long will it last, is the moot question. Analysts aver [...]

Canada’s Centerra Gold Spark

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News A deal was approved on Thursday by Kyrgyzstan’s lawmakers to double the government’s stake in a gold mine that is one of the impoverished Central Asian country’s biggest sources of revenue. The settlement will raise the state’s share in Canada-based Centerra Gold Inc. (CG.TO), which owns the [...]

Great Days Ahead For Gold Price

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News All the signals are promising for gold stocks to rise. A prominent hedge fund manager claimed recently that commodities could be in line for a major boom in the next 18 months, Forbes has reported. In India, the largest consumer of the yellow metal, the Bombay Bullion [...]

Increase Risk Appetite For Gold

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Gold Investing News Feeling risky? Buy gold. It’s all about the risk factor these days, as investors square their positions following a massive rally on the stock market. Ever since stocks soared on Monday, driving the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points, after the government announced details of a [...]

Gold Price Spurts After Policy Easing Measures

 By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News With friends like these, who needs enemies? Silver and gold have a new best friend amongst their midst – Ben Bernanke. His pronouncement has engineered one of the last decade’s most dramatic turnarounds, with gold price leaping nearly 60 bucks and silver joining in the melee with a [...]

Bullish On Gold – The News Just Gets Better

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News The news just gets better. Gold prices are set to hit $1,500 an ounce in the next 12 to 15 months, said Gary Dugan, the Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch. Dugan termed his apprehensions of gold striking such a high as a ‘fear’ that may come [...]

BacTech Provides Update on Government Grant Applications

BacTech Mining Corporation announced that its Statement of Interest for a grant from the Federal government’s Sustainable Development Technology Canada fund has been selected to proceed to the Full Proposal Stage, and a detailed proposal will be submitted to SDTC prior to January 21, 2009. For full story, click here F

Govt clamps down illegal mining

The South Cotabato Provincial Government clamped down on alleged illegal small-scale mining players in T’boli town, closing down some 145 tunnels and gave stoppage orders to 17 ore processing or ball mill operators. For full story, click here