Crude oil rose to the highest close since November on speculation that the worst of the recession is over.

Gold-based exchange traded funds, or ETFs, are becoming increasingly popular and, for many, the primary means of investing in the precious metal.

The global financial-crisis-battered platinum market would have been in worse shape at the end of last year had it not been for scrap.

National and state governments around the world are pumping money into clean technology projects, but coal is still doing well.

Europe’s central banks are $40bn poorer than they might have been after they followed a British move taken 10 years ago to shrink the Bank of England’s gold reserves.

Minefinders Corporation announced that commercial production had been achieved at the 100%-owned Dolores Gold-Silver Mine in Mexico.

Gold prices are incredible volatile. This timeline shows how varioius economic and political events have driven gold prices from 1900 to present day.

Gold rose more than one percent on Thursday, with buying supported by the prospect of gold being used as a possible hedge against inflation.

Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc., one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure molybdenum producers, announced first-quarter financial results today.

Current low natural gas prices are setting the stage for a dramatic price rebound that should begin this fall or winter, Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s chief executive officer told analysts Tuesday.