(Kitco News) – Traders and analysts are characterizing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's congressional testimony Tuesday as largely neutral for the gold market. About an hour into her testimony, prices suddenly slipped below $1,300 an ounce for the …

Neil Leeson and Wenbo Zhou of Ned Davis Research give the key reason that smaller gold-mining companies have beaten the rest of the gold-mining sector during 2014. It's Australia. The two largest Australian mining companies held by Market Vectors …

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Following another dominating performance at the U20 NORCECA Continental Championship, the USA Volleyball Women's Junior National Team defeated Cuba in straight sets, 25-15, 25-22, 25-16, to claim gold.

Just before New York's opening bell on Monday somebody dumped 14,000 gold contracts onto the market. That's 1.4 million ounces (a contract is 100 ounces), or $1.8bn worth – around a 65th of annual global production. And it followed a 6,000-contract …

Alice Coachman, who began her pathbreaking athletic career running on the dirt roads of Georgia and became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal when she leapt 5 feet, 6 1 / 8 inches in the high-jump event at the 1948 London Games, died …

Alice Coachman Davis clears the bar at five feet to win the running high jump in the Women's National Track Meet in Grand Rapids, Iowa in 1948. The first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, Coachman Davis, died early Monday in south Georgia.

Two exchange-traded products are launching today, one an equity ETF focused on gold miners, and the other an ETN that cherry-picks U.S. Treasury debt across the yield curve. The gold fund, which will carry the Sprott name that is well known in precious …

The gold rush was one of the first economic jolts in (what was at the time) a British colony, and offered a good prediction of all of British Columbia's economic promise. It also attracted copious amounts of people. What had been an empty area quickly …

The trade deficit jumped to $11.76 billion last month from $11.23 billion in May, government data showed on Wednesday, boosted by a 65 percent annual rise in gold imports. The bullion is India's second-biggest import item after oil and was one of the …