After gold-medal showings by Aleksandr Ivanov and Elena Lashmanova in the men and women's 20km walks, the focus now turns to the longest race on the world championships programme, the men's 50km walk — the women do not compete over that …

The third increase in import taxes on gold this year by India, the world's biggest user, is set to boost smuggling ahead of the festival and wedding seasons as official imports halt on central bank curbs, a trade group said. Gold premiums in India have …

Her dominance of the sport she took to new heights with 28 world records, 15 outdoors and 13 indoors, has receded in recent years, but a season's best leap was good enough to secure gold. "I'm the pole vault queen, the crowd is mine," the 31-year-old …

By Alison Wildey. MOSCOW | Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:51pm EDT. MOSCOW (Reuters) – LaShawn Merritt satisfied his hunger for success by regaining the 400 meters title at the world championships on Tuesday with a tactically perfect run as defending champion …

This after watching her husband of one month, Ashton Eaton, capture decathlon gold two days earlier. Not to mention watching him claim the Olympic title in London. Finally, it was her turn. "I've always watched him get his medals and think, 'I wonder …

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Gold futures seesawed between minor gains and losses Tuesday, with strength in the U.S. dollar serving as a headwind ahead of U.S. retail-sales data that may support the Federal Reserve's plan to start tapering monetary …

(Kitco News) – Comex gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session moderately lower Tuesday. A solidly higher U.S. dollar index and some technical chart consolidation following recent gains helped to sink the yellow metal. Gold and silver traders are …

US retail sales data bolsters view Fed stimulus should fade * Dollar hits one-week high against euro, yen * India hikes gold import duty for 3rd time in 2013 (Adds analyst comment, second byline, dateline, updates market activities) By Frank Tang and …

Bullish gold investors have gotten the upper hand over the bears as gold prices hit a three-week high north of $1,300 an ounce this week. Bullion and gold miner prices broke above their key 50-day moving average Monday for the first time in 10-months, …