Victims of gold bar scams reported losses of $126 million in 2024. Kris Owen, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran, had planned to spend his golden years in Indiana with his wife, Karen. They wanted to ...
Trump’s threatened trade war has thrown the precious metal market into turmoil. Traders, worried that tariffs will be imposed on gold, are anxious to get bars into the U.S. before the hammer drops.
Institutional investors have shipped elevated amounts of physical gold bars to vaults in New York in a move to front-run tariffs and take advantage of a price disparity between London and New York.