Gold News: Gold Prices Reach 13 Month High
Gold News
Gold has had its best start of the year, as investors have purchased the precious metal at the highest rates in seven years, and with prices up more than 20% year to date. On Friday, March 4th, gold traded at $1271.67 a troy ounce, the highest price since February of 2015 making gold news.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch reported that in the past four weeks around $7.9 billion has flowed into gold funds. Jens Pedersen, an analyst at Copenhagen’s Danske Bank A/S, told Bloomberg that “the rally has mainly been on the repricing and changing expectations regarding central bank policy.”