Gold rose for the first time in three days on signs that Chinese manufacturing will slow in May for the first time in seven months, sparking a drop in global equities and increased demand for bullion as a protection of wealth.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Congressional testimony Wednesday left the market gyrating in schizophrenia and confusion. In his opening remarks, he seemed to emphasize that the recovery is still fragile and QE has been helpful, thus implying continued QE. Equities (SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF), bonds (iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF), and gold (SPDR Gold Trust ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Gold prices were popping on Thursday as traders bought the yellow metal against a massive selloff in Japanese stocks and other global equity markets. Gold for June delivery at the COMEX division of the CME was climbing $18.20 to $1,385.60 an ounce. The gold price traded as high as $1,397.10 and as low as $1,355 an ...

Markets are falling (although the US is not as bad as it was earlier). The big winners so far: Gold and Apple. We've explained a lot in the past about why gold and Apple move together, but the basic gist is that both represent asset classes in their own right that are uncorrelated with overall market moves. Anyway, here's a ...

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,386.00, EUR 1,074.92 and GBP 919.16 per ounce.  Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,385.25, EUR 1,071.43 and GBP 917.75 per ounce.  Gold fell $10.20 or 0.74% yesterday to $1,367.60/oz and silver finished up 0.07%.  Click here to download our free guide to gold. Gold is up today while stock indices globally are sharply down after ...