Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious and other metals such as copper, silver and gold. It also maintains live quotes and charts for metal prices.

The company was founded in 1977 by Bart Kitner using a loan of C$700. It initially operated from Kitner's apartment in Peel Street, Montreal. In 1983, it moved into its own office and in 1989 it moved to its present offices in Cathcart Street, Montreal.

Today, Kitco has offices in Montreal, Canada and New York, United States, as well as a significant Internet presence. As of 2008 its website was ranked second only to Wikipedia in searches for the terms gold and silver.^{[citation needed]}

Kitco News is the journalistic division of Kitco; it performs original reporting in the forms of articles and videos. Original coverage by Kitco News includes being one of the first organizations to break the story about the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's (GATA) lawsuit against the Federal Reserve, as well as focus pieces on issues such as conflict minerals in the Congo. In addition to this, Kitco News reports constantly on price movements within the precious and base metals markets, and provides both fundamental and technical analysis.

News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third-party or mass audience.

One theory claims that the English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – the Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the cognate Polish nowiny and Russian novosti – and in the Celtic languages: the Welsh newyddion (from newydd) and the Cornish nowodhow (from nowydh).

Before the invention of newspapers in the early 17th century, official government bulletins and edicts were circulated at times in some centralized empires.

The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.

Bad news may refer to: