Gold ETF Starts 2018 With Record Winning Streak as Dollar Falls

A worker lifts a gold bullion bar from a conveyor machine at the Rand Refinery Ltd. plant in Germiston, South Africa, on Wednesday, Aug. 16. 2017. Established by the Chamber of Mines of South Africa in 1920, Rand Refinery is the largest integrated single-site precious metals refining and smelting complex in the world, according to their website.Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

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By Luke Kawa

January 3, 2018 at 2:52 PM UTC

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Call it a new golden age.

The SPDR Gold Shares ETF (ticker GLD) kicked off 2018 with an advance of 1.2 percent on Jan. 2, extending its streak of gains to 11, a record. It retreated slightly at the start of regular trading on Jan. 3, but is still up for the year.