Surging silver and gold slide after CME raises margin requirements
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-12-29 12:25 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom The Associated Press
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Monday, December 29, 2025
NEW YORK -- Silver and gold futures fell sharply Monday after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading floors for commodities, asked traders to put up more cash to make bets on precious metals with prices surging this year.
This year, gold futures are up 65% and silver has more than doubled.
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Vince Lanci: Silver gets hammered after someone gets liquidated
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-12-29 11:34 Section: Daily Dispatches11:34a ET Monday, December 29, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
In his daily commentary at the Arcadia Economics channel at YouTube, commodity market analyst Vince Lanci today addresses the possibilities of what happened in the silver market overnight and this morning, including the possibility that a major short position was closed with some help from the official sector. The commentary is headlined "Silver Gets Hammered After Someone Gets Liquidated On Sunday Night Open," is 28 minutes long, and can be viewed here:
America's strangest gold: The secret Saudi 'coins' struck by the U.S. Mint for oil payments
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-12-29 10:03 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Coin Week, Silver Springs, Florida
Monday, December 29, 2025
They look like coins. They circulated like money. Yet the U.S. Mint never meant them to be coins at all.
In the mid-1940s the mint struck one of the most unusual forms of American gold ever produced: anonymous gold disks made not for collectors or commerce but to pay oil royalties to Saudi Arabia. These pieces sit at the crossroads of geopolitics, bullion, and numismatic mystery, and remain among the most counterfeited U.S.-minted gold items.
At record high prices, India's household gold could now be bigger than GDP
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2025-12-29 09:37 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Nikhil Agarwal
The Times of India, Mumbai
Monday, December 29, 2025
India's legendary love affair with gold has reached an extraordinary milestone. With spot gold touching fresh all-time peaks above $4,500 per ounce in the international market, the country's household gold reserves may have crossed the $5 trillion mark—making the glittering stash worth more than India's entire gross domestic product.
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Ed Steer: Ted Butler's 'bonfire' and Terra Incognita
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-12-27 14:08 Section: Daily Dispatches2:06p ET Saturday, December 27, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The weekend edition of GATA board member Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest is headlined "Ted Butler's 'Bonfire' and Terra Incognita'" and is posted in the clear at SilverSeek here:
https://silverseek.com/article/ted-butlers-bonfire-terra-incognita
Amid battery boom, graphite mining gets a fresh look in U.S.
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-12-27 11:50 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michael Hill
Associated Press
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, December 26, 2025
GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. -- Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could be imported inexpensively from other nations, especially China.
That view is changing now.
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