Host United States is the official home team for the 12-nation Gold Cup tournament, but Haiti surely won't feel like a visitor at Sun Life Stadium on Friday night in a first-round match against Trinidad and Tobago. The Haitians are back in Miami for …

Gold traders are the most bullish in five weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. still needs stimulus. Nineteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise next week, nine were bearish and three neutral. Gold fell …

His last international goal came four years prior, against Haiti in the 2009 Gold Cup group stages. DaMarcus Beasley was named U.S. captain for the Gold Cup by manager Jurgen Klinsmann. The top two teams in each group and the best two third-placed …

Spot gold traded at $1,283.80 an ounce by 9:29 a.m. in Singapore from $1,286.20 yesterday, when prices climbed for a fourth day to $1,298.73, the highest since June 24. A fifth day of gains would be the longest winning run since the five days to April 22.

USA TODAY markets reporter Matt Krantz answers a different reader question every weekday. To submit a question, e-mail Matt at [email protected]. Q: Is gold a good asset to own to reduce volatility in your portfolio? A: Fans of gold like to say it's …

Just a few months after leaving the State Department, Hillary Rodham Clinton has plunged into the lucrative world of paid speechmaking, joining a branch of the family business that has brought the Clintons more than $100 million since her husband left …

In the virtual gold vaults, home to more than 400,000 bars of the precious metal, the Bank jokes that no gold has ever been stolen from the bank – except for in an episode of the TV show Thunderbirds, and in the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob.

Of course that's not fair, but in the land of James Naismith, John Wooden and Mike Krzyzewski, for the country that invented the game, gold is the only reality. It's the price the U.S. pays for a history of international successes, whether it's the …

After a near-two month delay, copper and gold miner Freeport-McMoRan has begun running copper shipments again out of its Grasberg mine in Indonesia, though full capacity production is still at least a month away. The open-pit mine was closed in May …