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1 Oct 2025

gold just had its best monthly performance since August 2011...

Source: zerohedge

1 Oct 2025

It's official.

Silver just reached its highest quarterly close in history. Source: Otavio (Tavi) Costa @TaviCosta, Bloomberg

29 Sep 2025

A beautiful quarterly candles chart of silver

Source: Tavi Costa, Bloomberg

29 Sep 2025

Gold was 21% of global assets in 1980. Today it's 5%

The financial universe got 4X bigger. Stocks, bonds, derivatives, crypto Sometimes the denominator is the story Source: Katsua Research

24 Sep 2025

Gold hits most overbought level on the monthly chart in 45 years.

But beware, an asset can stay overbought during a long period of times in a bull run. And the market isn't speculating; it's rationally repricing the metal for a new era of fiscal dominance, negative real yields, and de-dollarization. Source: Barchart

23 Sep 2025

Gold is on pace for its best year since 1979, up over 42% in 2025.

Source: Charlie Bilello

23 Sep 2025

The gold price is rising again.

It fell back briefly after last week's Fed, as markets digested a more complicated meeting than they had hoped for. But now we're back off to the races and gold is resuming its rise. As rightly put by Robin Brooks, "the world is running out of safe havens. Gold is the winner..." Source: Robin Brooks

23 Sep 2025

Is Silver a pure AI play?

Note how Silver has been moving in sync with Global X Artificial Intelligence ETF $AIQ... Source: The Market Ear

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