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Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This Week Gold and silver have eked out slight gains this week as stock markets came under pressure due to concerns about tech and oil sector valuations, Italian banks and political and financial turmoil due to Brexit. Gold is 0.65% higher for the week in dollars [...]

Quick Take It's been 80 years since Oris introduced its first pointer date mechanism, which has become a signature complication within the larger Oris watch range. The Big Crown collection that this easy-to-read date function graces is likewise a signature Oris collection, and has done much to advance the Swiss watchmaker's reputation for crafting interesting, [...]

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, Editor Pre-1933 gold coins have long been a core area of the coin collecting market. Yet, over the past two years premiums on these classic coins have virtually all but evaporated as more of these coins have come onto the market from overseas and increasing numbers of collectors and investors turned to [...]

Quick Take It's been 80 years since Oris introduced its first pointer date mechanism, which has become a signature complication within the larger Oris watch range. The Big Crown collection that this easy-to-read date function graces is likewise a signature Oris collection, and has done much to advance the Swiss watchmaker's reputation for crafting interesting, [...]

Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This Week Gold and silver have eked out slight gains this week as stock markets came under pressure due to concerns about tech and oil sector valuations, Italian banks and political and financial turmoil due to Brexit. Gold is 0.65% higher for the week in dollars [...]

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, Editor Pre-1933 gold coins have long been a core area of the coin collecting market. Yet, over the past two years premiums on these classic coins have virtually all but evaporated as more of these coins have come onto the market from overseas and increasing numbers of collectors and investors turned to [...]

The pound plunged against the euro, the dollar, gold and all leading currencies today as Theresa May's UK government appeared vulnerable to collapsing and political turmoil risked creating a hard Brexit. Gold in GBP (24 Hours) The pound has fallen 2.6% against gold in less than twenty four hours seeing gold rise from £923 to [...]

Quick Take This is not just a new watch, but also the launch of a new "brand" of sorts. Massena LAB is the creation of Mr. William Massena, a noted collector and industry veteran who you might remember from his episode of Talking Watches. Essentially he's created a brand that will both collaborate with existing [...]

Paper Money Guaranty (PMG) will attribute “Pre-Star Replacement Notes” for Large-Size National Bank Notes, Small-Size National Bank Notes and Large-Size Type Notes (such as Legal Tender, Silver and Gold Certificates, and Federal Reserve Notes) starting Nov. 15, 2018. Replacement notes are those that took the place of notes that were deemed unfit for circulation. Today, [...]

(Reuters) – Gold broker and storage company GoldCore said on Tuesday it had opened a gold vault in Dublin, aiming to attract investors looking for an alternative to London after Brexit. Dublin-based GoldCore, which set up the facility in collaboration with security firm Loomis International, said it was Ireland's first institutional grade vault. “Brexit and [...]

Quick Take When most people think of Tudor, they think of classic sports watches like the Black Bay and the Heritage Chrono. But the brand has always made a wide variety of watches, and continues to do so right to this day. One great example of this is the new Glamour Double Date, unveiled earlier [...]

(Reuters) – Gold broker and storage company GoldCore said on Tuesday it had opened a gold vault in Dublin, aiming to attract investors looking for an alternative to London after Brexit. Dublin-based GoldCore, which set up the facility in collaboration with security firm Loomis International, said it was Ireland's first institutional grade vault. “Brexit and [...]