THE PRICE OF physical gold fell against all major currencies early Thursday, dropping 2% versus the Dollar as global stock markets jumped and Treasury bonds were sold lower.

THE PRICE OF GOLD ticked lower once more early Wednesday, bouncing higher from $918 an ounce for the second day running in London as world stock markets rallied on a strong Wall Street start.

THE PRICE OF GOLD jumped into the New York opening on Thursday, recovering two-thirds of this week’s 5% losses as the surge in world stock markets reversed.

THE SPOT PRICE OF PHYSICAL GOLD back half of an early Asian bounce Monday morning, recording its first London Gold Fix of March at $949.50 per ounce.

Crude oil settled below $34 per barrel for the first time in two months on Thursday (February 12). Crude fell to $33.98 after falling by $1.96 during New York trade.

Gold currently (February 4) sits at just over $903 per ounce. The valuable resource it’s steadily rising higher and looks primed for another move over $1,000 sometime in the near future.

BY THE TIME the War of the Spanish Succession was finished in 1715, the French King – who admitted that he “loved war too much” – owed the equivalent of £300 million.