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10 Feb 2025

Gold has been truly one of the GREATEST assets over the last few years, widely outperforming the S&P 500:

🔴 1-year performance: Gold +41% S&P 500 +21% 🔴 3-year: Gold +59% S&P 500 +34% 🔴 5-year: Gold +84% S&P 500 +80% Source. Global Markets Investor

7 Feb 2025

Fascinating

Source: @Callum_Thomas via Jan Nieuwenhuijs

5 Feb 2025

JUST IN 🚨: Gold jumps to a new all-time high and has now made fresh all-time highs in 5 consecutive trading sessions

Source: Barchart

3 Feb 2025

60 years of Gold and Silver price spikes.

Source: Rick Rule Rhetoric @RickRuleRulz

3 Feb 2025

The PaxGold stablecoin is tradeable 24/7. On the back of Trump's Tariff announcement, it went parabolic trading above $3,000 at some point...

PAX Gold (PAXG) is a commodity-backed, gold stablecoin issued by Paxos. Each token is backed by 1 fine troy ounce of gold kept in Brink’s vaults managed by Paxos. Source: kucoin

31 Jan 2025

Gold is at all time highs

Source: Martin M on X

24 Jan 2025

Central Bank Gold Reserves

Interesting thing on this is how even after their big buy-up, Russia & China lag far behind USA + Eurozone holdings of gold. Source: Callum Thomas, Visual Capitalist

23 Jan 2025

Gold is shining: Gold's global market cap to world GDP ratio reached a RECORD 16.7% in 2024.

This ratio has doubled in 10 years and quadrupled since 2001. Nominally, gold’s market value sits near an all-time high of ~$18.5 trillion. This comes as gold as posted an average annual return of +9.5% since 2000, making it one of the best performing major asset classes this century. Since the start of 2024, gold prices have hit 41 all-time highs and are up +33%. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

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