The stars have aligned for gold prices, leaving them just a short hop from record highs, but as bullion bugs celebrate, the rally appears to have flaws.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 18, 2009
The Chinese government is flooding Beijing with armed police and up to one million security volunteers to head off any unrest over October's sensitive anniversary of 60 years of Communist Party rule.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 17, 2009
The U.S. Coast Guard set off a security scare on Friday with a routine training exercise in the heart of the U.S. capital on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 11, 2009
US TREASURIES powered through resistance today on a buy American which had both US debt and equities rising for this session. The catalyst for the jump in Treasuries was a greater demand at the $ 12 billion auction for US 30 year securities.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 10, 2009
The price of gold could rise as high as $1,600 an ounce as investors opt for assets with lasting value rather than volatile currencies, says one hedge fund manager who has increased his exposure to the precious metal.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 10, 2009
A cyber security coordinator is expected to be announced by President Barack Obama in the next week or two, and the lead candidate is Frank Kramer, who was an assistant Defense secretary under President Bill Clinton, a source said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 09, 2009
World stocks slipped on Wednesday as investors paused ahead of key U.S. data, having pushed them to 11-month highs the previous day, while the low-yielding dollar held near its 2009 low against the euro.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 09, 2009
NICE Systems, the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract insight from interactions to drive performance, today announced that it has received follow on orders from Cherokee Nation Entertainment (CNE) for its NiceVision video surveillance solution.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 08, 2009
Michael Jackson finally will be buried near Los Angeles on Thursday evening, 70 days after his death, and authorities are going to great lengths to ensure he will rest in peace.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 03, 2009
Private contractors hired by the U.S. government have jeopardized security at the American embassy in Kabul with lewd, drunken conduct and an understaffed guard force at a time of rising violence in the Afghan capital, a watchdog group said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 01, 2009
India is considering a new law allowing strict checking of all imported telecommunications equipment, the latest move to plug security holes after last year's Mumbai attacks.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 01, 2009
New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said on Monday it is too early to talk about curtailing the central bank's long-term security purchases while the economic recovery is fragile.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 31, 2009
New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said on Monday it is too early to talk about curtailing the central bank's long-term security purchases while the economic recovery is fragile.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 31, 2009
Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, who was 11 years old when she was abducted on June 10, 1991, walked into the Concord Police Department and revealed her identity on Wednesday, according to the New York Times.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 28, 2009
General Electric has put its security business up for sale in an auction that could fetch about $2 billion, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 26, 2009
Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 24, 2009
Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 24, 2009
Iraq's foreign minister on Saturday said members of the security forces may have colluded in a massive truck bombing that wrecked his ministry, and called for a serious and responsible investigation.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 22, 2009
The CIA has reportedly hired the infamous US security firm Blackwater on the Pakistan borders to help track down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 20, 2009
Albert Gonzalez is the mastermind behind what authorities have reported as the largest hacking and identity theft case ever in U.S. history.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 18, 2009
Three men were indicted on Monday for allegedly stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers in what U.S. authorities said they believe is the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 18, 2009
Police, councils and the intelligence services made more than 500,000 requests to access private emails and telephone records in the UK last year, according to an annual surveillance report.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 10, 2009
