HOLMES BEACH – It was a busy end to the year for luxury real estate in coastal Manatee County, as a handful of homes sold for a total of $4.82 million, according to property records. The highest-dollar-volume sale involved an Anna Maria Island triplex.

And these units are changing hands faster, spending about 30 days less on the market in the last quarter of 2013 than they did around the same time in 2012, according to data from Avatar Real Estate Services. “This means … For just under $1 million …

NEW YORK/LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Gold fell over 1 percent to under $1,200 an ounce on Monday, heading for its biggest annual loss in more than three decades at nearly 30 percent, as a willingness to take on more risk and the prospect of a global …

(Kitco News) -Large speculators did not dramatically change their positioning in gold and silver futures and options during the week after the Federal Open Market Committee announced the start of tapering of quantitative easing, according to government …

Gold output in Ghana, Africa's second-largest producer, fell 18 percent in the third quarter as declining prices prompted some mines to cut production to rein in costs, the Minerals Commission said. Production slumped to 840,600 ounces from July …

Commodities headed for the first annual drop in five years as supply exceeded demand for corn to sugar to nickel and after investors lost faith in precious metals as a store of value amid signs economies are improving. The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge …

Both games will be available to those with an Xbox Live Gold membership as part of the Games with Gold program. Sleeping Dogs, typically a $19.99 download, will be free from Jan. 1-15. Originally announced as the next installment in the True Crime …

Investing.com – Gold prices dropped on Monday after investors shrugged off soft U.S. housing figures and sold on concerns years of support from the Federal Reserve via monetary stimulus tools will be winding down in 2014. Gold ignores soft U.S. housing …

(Kitco News) -U.S. gold futures have dipped back below the $1,200-an-ounce level on the final trading day of the New Year Tuesday. At the moment, prices are softer on more end-of-year long liquidation and perhaps some selling to capture losses in 2013 …