Sources: BBC
The price of gold hits a record high of US$1,944 per ounce as uncertainty over the global economy grows due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. The previous record was set in 2011 when prices hit US$1,921 per ounce. 2020-07-27
Gold falls below $1200 per ounce for the first time since 2010. 2013-06-28
Mining giant Rio Tinto, continuing a program of asset divestment, asks Macquarie Group to find a buyer for its interest in the Australian Northparkes copper and gold mine. 2013-04-4
The All Ordinaries Index on the Australian Stock Exchange falls by 4.4% with Asian markets generally down. 2011-08-19
The price of gold reaches a new record after the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez announces plans to nationalize the Venezuelan gold industry. 2011-08-17
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on the New York Stock Exchange as world stock markets recover after recent falls. 2011-08-9
The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates. 2011-08-9
Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue falls from Europe and the United States. 2011-08-5
Stock markets around the world fall on the back of concerns about global economic growth with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 4%. 2011-08-4
A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to be worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. 2010-06-14