Monthly Archives: June 2016

Gold futures kicked off the new trading month on Wednesday with a loss -- their ninth in ten sessions, and settled at their lowest level in more than fourteen weeks.

Gold for August delivery declined $2.80, or 0.2%, to close at $1,214.70 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]

The United States Mint registered another strong bout of sales, according to their latest report. The figures are skewed somewhat higher because of extra time in the reporting period with Memorial Day added in, but then sales around a holiday weekend are almost always lackadaisical so there's some offsetting there.

Bigger gainers included all commemorative coins, all the newer annual sets, and most of the gold coins [...]