Gold higher at $4,496.86
Spot gold is at $4,496.86 an ounce, +3.75% on the session.
Per ounce (EUR)€3,884.65
Gold / silver68.3
Spot gold stands at $4,496.86 per troy ounce, +$162.44 (+3.75%) on the session, according to the XAUTicker feed. The headlines below are collected automatically from public news feeds and are listed newest first.
Continued from the morning edition of 19 August 2026. Prices below are frozen at publication — the live gold price has the current figure, and this guide covers what tends to move it.
Top stories this session
No editorial write-up was produced for this edition. The 40 headlines collected for it are listed in full below, newest first, each linking to the publisher that ran it.
- What the Federal Reserve is and what it does qz.com
- Markets Rally as Treasury Yields Fall: Gold Surges, Bitcoin Jumps, META and NOC Flash Bullish Signals RichTV.io
- Gold Price Forecast — XAU/USD ($4,436) Bounces Off $4,324 Into Fed Minutes — $4,503 Target TradingNEWS
- Precious metals surge after surprise US Treasury announcement to support longer-dated securities investingLive
- Gold, Bitcoin rally as U.S. Treasury makes unexpected bond market move thestreet.com
- Stocks, bonds and gold rally after Treasury indicates it will buy more government bonds to stop yields from surging MarketWatch