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Sliding Chinese currency takes blame for gold price weakness

Frik Els | April 18, 2014 | 10:03 pm Precious Metals Asia China Gold 

The price of gold ended the holiday-shortened week below the psychologically and technically important $1,300 level, losing almost 2% since Monday. The sell-off was blamed on an easing of tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine after marathon diplomatic...

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