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Profit-taking by holders of ETFs as gold hit a record of over $5,000 an ounce also weighed on the precious metal.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Spot gold is 0.3% higher at $4,686.07 per ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

UBS has an end-of-year gold target of $5,600 per ounce, based primarily on the assumption that investors will continue to want to diversify their portfolios with purchases of the precious metal.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Spot gold is 0.9% lower at $4,452.16 an ounce; spot silver is 2.5% lower at $68.01 an ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

If you weighed it on a postal scale, would hardly move the needle at all, but I suppose there was a fraction of an ounce of sorry for him somewhere inside me.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor