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Recent reports show that the price of gold remains under pressure as rising crude oil prices fuel inflation concerns and strengthen expectations of tighter U.S. monetary policy, offsetting support from declining Treasury yields and geopolitical uncertainty.

Many investors wonder how they should expect gold prices to behave when there is a significant pullback in stocks. Looking at historical patterns when stocks retreat significantly, three key scenarios emerge regarding how gold prices are likely to behave. Those scenarios are ruled by the answers to three major questions, which we discuss below.

The global silver market is expected to record another supply deficit this year, as demand continues to outpace available supply. According to the World Silver Survey, this metal’s market could face a shortfall of more than 46 million ounces, quite an increase from the 40.3 million ounces recorded last year.

Gold is widely considered a safe-haven asset during periods of geopolitical uncertainty. However, since the outbreak of the Iran war, gold prices have fallen by around 13%, surprising investors who expected the metal to benefit from rising tensions. Other major assets have also declined, but not as sharply.

A new report authored by Deutsche Bank indicates that a decline in the industrial demand for silver, as well as growing supply, could cause the precious metal’s market to shift from being in a deficit to one characterized by oversupply as soon as 2027 .

Gold is becoming less sensitive to higher real interest rates, with Standard Chartered highlighting that longer-term structural factors are increasingly helping support the precious metal despite the current Federal Reserve stance. In a recent precious metals report, the company’s Head of Commodities Research Suki Cooper explained that gold had already recovered from the Federal Reserve’s rate increase last week.

For most of this year, the prices of precious metals like gold and silver have been moved by U.S. monetary policy, dollar strength and geopolitical developments. Today, silver’s industrial demand is seeing a new segment gobbling up the metal in ways that are bound to support silver’s price for many more years to come.

Silver and gold exchange-traded funds faced significant selling pressure at the end of last month as investors reacted to a shift in expectations surrounding U.S. monetary policy. Precious-metal-linked products declined sharply during the session, with some gold and silver ETFs losing more than 3%.

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While most people are focused on Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech on Friday as a key factor that moved precious metal prices, there are three other things that are even more noteworthy when an investor is analyzing the price direction of gold and silver. We discuss those factors that went unnoticed due to the media buzz surrounding Fed Chair Warsh’s speech at Jackson Hole.

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The United States consumes roughly 6% of global copper, yet now holds nearly 70% of the copper stored across major global futures exchanges: the London Metal Exchange, COMEX, and the Shanghai Futures Exchange. Ole Hansen, Saxo Bank’s Head of Commodity Strategy, argues that this unusual concentration is largely driven by expectations of America imposing tariffs on imported refined copper.

When U.S. nonfarm payrolls data was released indicating that the economy had unexpectedly shed 23,000 jobs, yet analysts had expected jobs to increase, gold immediately rallied to nearly $4,400. We discuss why the jobs data had such an effect on the price of precious metals and what investors need to keep in mind going forward.

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Copper is becoming increasingly important to the global economy as its applications expand across construction, manufacturing, electronics and power infrastructure. This comes as the transition to clean energy continues to take shape globally. Electric vehicles, renewable energy projects, power grids and data centers all depend heavily on copper because of its excellent ability to conduct electricity.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) is currently holding its July meeting and a decision on benchmark lending rates is expected on Wednesday when this meeting ends. While news outlets will be focusing more on whether the Fed decides to retain the current lending rate or increase it, we think the more useful metric to watch is how each FOMC member votes .

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On Monday, precious metal prices ticked upwards. Gold reached $4,362 an ounce, marking gains of approximately 3.4%. Silver’s price hit $71.2 an ounce, a rally of about 4.7%. We look at some of the key factors that are driving this rally in precious metal prices as this week progresses.

On Monday, precious metal prices ticked upwards. Gold reached $4,362 an ounce, marking gains of approximately 3.4%. Silver’s price hit $71.2 an ounce, a rally of about 4.7%. We look at some of the key factors that are driving this rally in precious metal prices as this week progresses.

In March, legislation was tabled in the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to modify the law under which vaults are approved to store precious metals like gold, silver and platinum. A companion bill was later tabled in the Senate this month. The SILVER Act, as the legislation is called, would significantly change the existing system through which these exchange-traded precious metals are stored in the U.S.

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Early this week, the price of silver jumped by just over 6% to reach $85.30 an ounce. This came as markets awaited the summit due to be held in Beijing between President Trump and Xi Jinping of China. We unpack why markets reacted in this way in anticipation of the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China in almost a decade.

According to data from the Customs Authority in China, imports of silver into the country jumped 173% when compared to the average imports of the metal over the past decade. This makes last month’s silver imports the highest ever recorded in the history of the country. We analyze the factors behind this rush for the metal and what it means for investors.

Now that the Easter holiday is behind us, many investors are wondering which price direction silver is going to take over the coming weeks. Such a query is valid given the somewhat erratic way in which the price of this metal has been moving lately. We explore some of the drivers that are exerting an influence on silver prices and could continue to do so.