Why have US shares, gold and the dollar been soaring?
Jeffrey Frankel
The emergence of artificial intelligence has pushed the tech sector to all-time highs, but other assets have risen, too
May 2024
‘It’s a barbarity’: why are hundreds of families asking to be moved away from this Dominican Republic goldmine?
The Audio Long Read
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush – podcast
April 2024
‘I suspect I’d look like a five-year-old cosplaying as Mr T’: can I pull off the new men’s jewellery?
The long read
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush
March 2024
Price of gold hits record high amid geopolitical tensions and investor jitters
Nils Pratley on finance
Record highs (nearly everywhere): it’s starting to feel frothy again
Nils Pratley
February 2024
‘A truly disruptive idea’: should we keep gold in the ground?
I always loved what my wedding ring represents, until I learned that making it generated at least 20 tonnes of waste on its journey from the earth to my finger
January 2024
Sacked FTSE 100 chief executive to forfeit £23m in pay and benefits
Gold-mining company sacks CEO over ‘serious misconduct’ allegations
December 2023
Smiles all round as financial markets end 2023 on an unexpected high
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘This river is doomed’: Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them
Costco sells $100m in gold bars in most recent quarter
Business live
Gold hits record high and bitcoin breaks $42,000 – as it happened
November 2023
The rural network
Green and gold: how a farming community responds when miners come to town
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon
October 2023
The modern-day gold diggers of California: ‘It doesn’t take much to catch the fever’
Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds
‘We had no money’: desperate UK public increasingly turning to pawnbrokers to make ends meet
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon