The cupcake craze has come and gone. But the three-figure cupcake craze may be just beginning. A Toronto bakery recently whipped up a $900 cupcake for a customer who wanted to buy "something special" for his wife's 40th birthday. It's now offering the …

(Kitco News) – An improving U.S. economy and growing expectations for an early rate hike will drag gold prices lower by the end of the year, but the impact will be limited says commodity economists at a leading macro-economic research firm. Caroline …

The FOMC minutes pressured U.S. Treasury and gold prices, but the U.S. stock indexes ignored the data as the Nasdaq index set a 14-year high Wednesday, while the S&P 500 futures hit a record high. The better investor/trader risk appetite in the market …

On August 14 last year, the government under the 80:20 scheme had allowed nominated agencies to import gold on the condition that 20 per cent of the inward shipment will be exported. The permission to import the next lot would be given on fulfilment of …

Since the gold demand would remain strong for India in the long term, the WGC India chief emphasised the need to find ways to mobilise and monetise 22,000 tonnes of gold stock worth USD 1 trillion held in private hands via formal financial sector, he …

Gold prices sank to a two-month low on Thursday as worries about higher interest rates and signs of economic strength in the U.S. dimmed the appeal of hard assets to investors. The most actively traded contract, for December delivery, was recently down …

For two individual silver medallists, the team event brought an element of revenge, as Kim Dongjiu (KOR) surprisingly beat individual gold medallist Ivan Ilin (RUS) in the men's sabre and Choi Chun Yin Ryan (HKG) defeated Andrzej Rzadkowski (POL), a …

14YMEDIO, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 13 August 2014 – Evening falls and the sound of the sieves in the rolling hills trails off. The three men collect their belongings. They've finished the first day in their arduous search for gold. Tomorrow they will …

The curators of an Amsterdam museum that has hosted an exhibition of Crimean gold since February probably never anticipated the tumultuous events that have complicated the return of the borrowed artifacts. Four of the five museums from which the …