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Unless a vaccine is produced and the spread of the virus begins to slow, it is highly unlikely that the price of gold will experience serious selling pressure.

International investors believe coronavirus is truly a global phenomenon, and the entire global stock market has been taken down.

Fasten your seat belts. 

This is escalating fast...

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note skidded to a new low Thursday as concerns over the impact of the coronavirus dogged financial markets around the globe.

9:31 am: WHO says failure to prepare for an outbreak ‘could be a fatal mistake’

Watch Jeff Clark's standing-room-only presentation at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference last month and learn why he thinks everyone should start their investments with physical silver, his top silver mining stock picks for the year, and why he has to use binoculars in the middle of his talk.

The number of daily new COVID-19 cases outside China exceeded those inside the country for the first time, the WHO announced Wednesday.

People treasure gold and they have for millennia. As a result, the yellow metal has found its way into some of the world's great literature. Yesterday, we shared with you some of the greatest gold quotes of all time, gleaned from a contest we ran with Roy Sebag. The winner walked away with a one-ounce gold coin.
With gold's striking beauty, it comes as no surprise that the yellow metal has also been the subject of visual art. Roy decided it would be fun to see some of the greatest visual depictions of gold, so he ran another contest to find the greatest golden art of all time.

Gold prices rose on Thursday as the rapid spread of coronavirus outside China fueled demand for safe-haven assets and bolstered bets for interest rate cuts by major central banks, while palladium scaled an all-time high on supply deficit worries.

...durable goods orders are still down 2.3% YoY - in contraction for 8 of the last 9 months...

The German government is considering the option of introducing a stimulus programme in case the economy is hit hard by coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing German news outlet Handelsblatt.

As turmoil continues in the markets with stocks selling off due to continued fears over coronavirus and its potential economic impact, Peter Schiff says gold is doing exactly what it's supposed to do — serving as a safe haven and a store of value.

Let the profit downgrades on Wall Street at the hands of the coronavirus commence.

Ex-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen warned coronavirus could cause the US economy to shrink, according to Bloomberg. 'It's just conceivable th...

Even with gold at seven-year highs, there’s still room for more gains if history is anything to go by. Prices have surged this year as haven-seeking investors pour in. Markets have been shaken by worries that the coronavirus outbreak will cripple global growth, coupled with expectations...

Former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh argued that the central bank should take "immediate action" and jointly cut interest rates with the People's Bank of China, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. The Fed "should be in the business of responding to 'tail risks'...

With interest rates deep below zero and the latest batch of asset purchases still ongoing, room for additional monetary support is severely limited even...

These three charts are a big warning with coronavirus looming.

Guggenheim Partners Global CIO Scott Minerd said Wednesday that stocks could have further to fall as the markets came to grips with the economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak.