June Gold News 2017

The gold price fell sharply overnight after Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the French presidential election, with the National Front’s Marine Le Pen coming second. Gold plunged 2.16% (£-22/oz t) in less than three hours, taking the precious metal's weekly loss to 3.48% (£35.66/oz t).

With Le Pen arguably …

The Russian Central Bank (RCB) added a further 25 metric tonnes of gold bullion to their official reserves in March. The figure is up from the 9 metric tonnes bought in February, but well below the 31 metric tonnes bought in January.

Since 2016 the RCB has been the largest …

Spain’s sixth largest bank, Banco Popular, appears to be losing the confidence of its customers. In 2016, the troubled bank lost 6.5% of its total deposit base as the banks solvency came into question. The bank responded by offering attractive deposit rates up to 4%, but the outflow only accelerated …