Gold has been boosted of late by data showing that U.S. wholesale inventories fell unexpectedly for a second straight month in June, which pushed economists to lower their estimates for second-quarter economic growth. Who works the longest? Jobs with …

Josef Craig followed her by winning Britain's second gold, setting an S7 400m freestyle world record. Craig touched in 4min 39.14sec to edge out Russia's Andrey Gladkov by five hundredths of a second and take virtually two seconds off his own world record.

MOSCOW –. The U.S.-Jamaican sprint rivalry is turning into a rout at the world track and field championships. With her long hot-pink hair slashing in the air behind her, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce captured the 100 meters Monday with a winning margin of …

Quincy Watts, who won two gold medals in the 1992 Olympics, is returning to USC as a member of the track and field coaching staff, the school announced Monday. Watts will be a sprints coach after working the last two years as distance coach at Cal …

The China Gold Association said Monday the country consumed 706.36 metric tons of gold during the first half of the year, up 54% from a year earlier. Some gold-market observers expect China to be the top gold consumer this year, unseating India.

9, according to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. The Bloomberg Dollar Index climbed for a second day before a report that may show U.S. retail sales expanded for a fourth month, bolstering the case for the Federal Reserve to scale back its asset purchases.

Asian stocks rose for a fourth day, led by Japanese shares after a report the government is weighing a corporate tax cut. The yen dropped for a second day against the dollar before U.S. retail sales data, while gold declined. The MSCI Asia Pacific …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese shares rose and the yen fell after a report on Tuesday said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a corporate tax cut to help offset the impact of a planned two-stage increase in the sales tax, while gold eased but held …

As this new book reveals he was also an intelligence agent working for the British secret services, using coded messages in the POWs' correspondence to pass on information to London and perhaps, during a spell at large in Prague, even assisting the …