Daniel Reyes covers precious-metals markets and the macro forces that move them, translating rates, inflation, and the dollar into what they mean for metal buyers.
Gold hit the highest price in history — and one of America's most-advertised gold dealers went bankrupt because of it. The metal was real. The promise wasn't.
A company that sold "stability" on television for nearly two decades is now liquidating, with roughly 617 customers owed about $60 million — and its own filing lays out how it happened.
A reported U.S.–Iran peace agreement sent crude tumbling and gold to its strongest day since February. Yet the metal remains below key technical markers, and analysts caution that the bounce in bullion may prove fragile.