Gold

David Jane, founder of Darwin Investment Managers, has bought back into gold and gold miners, in the view the asset bottomed at the end of last year.

Russian shares dropped to a five-year low yesterday, weighing on global markets, while the gold price jumped as the Ukraine crisis intensified.

The first few months of 2014 have seen a gold rally. Will it continue?

Weaker US data and ongoing expectations of tighter UK monetary policy have helped boost gold and sterling respectively as the dollar loses ground.

Investor confidence in UK shares rose at the start of February, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Private Banking Investor Sentiment Index, to reach its highest point in the survey's one year history.

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F&C multi-managers Gary Potter and Rob Burdett give their predictions on what's hot and what's not in the investment space this year, based on their mantra that the only thing that determines how successful an investor you are is the price you pay for...

The US dollar is closing in on a five-year high versus the yen, with gold heading towards a one-year low, ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's historic December meeting.

Gold is on course to record its worst year for more than three decades following huge falls over 2013.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reviewing gold benchmarks as part of a probe into how global rates are set, according to reports.