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  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Barrick Gold Corp
    Barrick builds up cyanide and explosive stockpiles as prices rise

    World’s second-biggest gold miner bolsters supplies of vital raw materials to combat inflation

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Money laundering
    Yorkshire gold dealer helped launder £266mn in cash, trial told

    Suspicions roused after ‘substantial amounts’ deposited into Fowler Oldfield’s bank account

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    First combined gold-bitcoin ETP launches in Europe

    Expert questions long-term wisdom of the fund, but ByteTree executive says the two assets make sense as a paired investment

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    LexPolymetal International PLC
    Gold/Polymetal: rising real rates would halt metal’s advance Premium content

    Cost pressures could well squeeze all gold miners

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    Petropavlovsk PLC
    Petropavlovsk hit with demand for almost $300mn from Gazprombank

    London-listed gold producer’s shares plunge after debt repayment order from sanctions-hit Russian lender

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Petropavlovsk PLC
    London-listed Petropavlovsk warns investors may be wiped out

    Previously high-flying Russian gold miner has been caught up in sanctions fallout

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    Gold ETP inflows hit record high of $11.3bn in March

    Investors dump European equity funds as fallout from the Ukraine war rocks markets

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Crypto vs gold: the search for an investment bolt hole

    The market in the yellow metal may be a bubble, but at least it’s a 6,000-year-old one. Meanwhile, bitcoin looks like a short-term fad

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Petropavlovsk PLC
    Gold producer Petropavlovsk blocked from loan payment as UK sanctions bite

    Russian-focused company prohibited from paying interest due after its main lender Gazprombank had assets frozen

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    G7 to crack down on Russia’s ability to sell its gold

    Leaders launch new effort to blunt any attempt by Moscow to evade western sanctions

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Dispatch from Kyiv

    ‘Shrinkflation’ means you pay the same for less as companies try to preserve margins

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Gold
    Money Clinic podcast: How can investors buy gold?

    A haven investment in volatile times, there’s more than one way to hold gold in your portfolio

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    The Fed wants it all Premium content

    And gold revisited

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    ExplainerMarket Questions
    Will US and UK central banks raise interest rates despite the threat to growth?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    An energy shock and high inflation: are the 1970s reborn?

    One thing is for sure. We won’t be going back to the 2010s

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Investments
    Investors buy gold in response to Ukraine war

    Savers can choose bullion, ETFs, or mining stocks

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Special Report
    Exchange Traded Funds

    Trendy ETFs remain in fashion despite hits from market falls. Plus: flight to ‘safe havens’ runs its own risks; themed funds accused of being a ‘bull market fad’; BlackRock funds ride high on ethical investment inflows

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Special ReportExchange Traded Funds
    Flight to ‘safe haven’ funds runs its own risks

    Investors are seeking to protect portfolios against inflation and geopolitical risk

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    LexJune Yoon
    The Lex Newsletter: bright prospects for neon price dim chip outlook Premium content

    Ukraine war likely to cut raw material supplies and exacerbate shortages that have hit carmakers

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    ETF investors pile into Russian equities and defence stocks

    Fund flows could be sign that some view crisis as shortlived while others are more pessimistic

  • Saturday, 19 February, 2022
    Gold
    Gold outperforms stocks and bonds as traders seek haven assets

    Rise fuelled by Russia-Ukraine tensions and concern that higher US rates could slow growth

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    Turkish economy
    Turkey to target ‘under the mattress’ gold in effort to bolster the lira

    Ankara hopes to convert about $25bn of the hidden metal into the currency in latest scheme

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    Special ReportCircular Economy
    Olympic legacy of Japan’s experiment in urban mining

    The resource-poor country’s scheme to make Games medals from retrieved waste has lessons for all

  • Saturday, 8 January, 2022
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    Gold struggles to attract investors as interest rates rise

    Headwinds gather amid heavy outflows from ETFs backed by the precious metal

  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    The old lessons from gold’s new existential crisis

    A combination of crypto and climate means the industry is left trying to justify its own existence

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