Oliver Conway

Yeah, as you were saying more than doubling since January 2024.

Can it keep rising?

It can, yes, because the world, and we're talking geopolitically here, but we're also talking in terms of the markets, those two things very, very linked, of course, looks increasingly uncertain.

You've also got the role played by interest rates, by the way.

Interest rates are probably going to come down this year.

We don't know exactly when.

But when and if they do come down, that means that bonds are less appealing because your rate of return, the yield that you get, will be less because the interest rate is less.

So that's another reason to go on and invest in gold.

So, I mean, even in the course of today, even in the course of this conversation now, I've just noticed, Oliver, the price of gold has gone up.

It doesn't mean it's going to go up and up and up forever.

but it doesn't look like it has any signs of abating.

Business correspondent Nick Marsh.

New research has revealed fascinating details about the social lives of spider monkeys.

A seven-year study in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula found they hang out in different social groups and share insider knowledge about where to find the best fruit trees.

I heard more from ecologist Matthew Silk.

These spider monkeys, they live in groups, but they don't spend all of their time together.

And so each of them has different kind of core ranges in the forest.

And so encounters and knows about different fruit trees, which are their main kind of source of food.

They will form these kind of subgroups and they often will follow each other to fruit trees that particular individuals know about.

And so what we were really interested in was understanding the structure of these groups and how they pull their kind of collective knowledge of all the fruit trees within their group home range.