NEW YORK: In the gold market, the greater popularity of bearish option bets over bullish ones suggests that the precious metal is more likely headed for another tumble instead of a sharp rally. Nearly four months after gold's historic rout, the option …

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This can be seen as both good and bad news depending on your current stance on Xbox Live Gold, which costs $60 annually. Microsoft has long taken heat from users who find it unnecessarily expensive to be able to enjoy all the features of a game, as …

Dollar fall, lower Treasury yield, weak U.S. stocks help * Fed policymakers suggest U.S. central bank ready to cut stimulus * Private gold investment seen steady in July * Coming up: U.S. weekly jobless claims on Thursday (Adds comment from analyst, …

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Chief Global Strategist Michael Purves discusses the impact of falling gold prices with Olivia Sterns on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. That means we're …

If you believe the price of gold has hit bottom, old school logic says you should buy a whole lot of gold mining shares right now. The gold miners, conventional wisdom goes, always pay off bigger than gold itself when the commodity price rises. But …

Gold has fallen so far in 2013, but gold-mining stocks have fallen even harder. Fund managers say the shares tend to move in either direction more than the commodity due to the leverage to the price. For the sake of round numbers, suppose a company's …

Gold outflows totaled $2.6 billion last month, extending withdrawals of $4.3 billion in June, BlackRock said in an e-mailed report today. Net-outflows from commodity ETP investments this year reached $31.6 billion, after withdrawals of $2.2 billion in …