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As gold hits records, Indians opt for bars and coins over jewelry
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-12-31 00:45 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Rajendra Jadhav and Polina Devitt
Reuters
via The Straits Times, Singapore
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
For nearly two decades, Mumbai homemaker Prachi Kadam marked every festive season with a gold jewelry purchase, blending tradition with personal style.
2025's record rally in prices, however, led her to choose a 10-gram gold coin instead of necklaces or bangles.
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Futures exchange raises precious metal margin requirements for second time this week
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2025-12-31 00:23 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yihui Xie
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
CME Group will raise margins on precious-metal futures for the second time in the space of a week following a volatile period of trading that saw prices spike then retreat.
Margins for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium contracts will increase after the close of business on Wednesday, the group said in a statement dated Dec. 30. The decision was made based on a review of "market volatility to ensure adequate collateral coverage," it said.
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Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decade
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2025-12-30 10:36 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ian Smith
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
The U.S. dollar is heading for its steepest annual drop since 2017, with Wall Street banks predicting further weakness next year as the Federal Reserve presses ahead with interest rate cuts.
The greenback has slumped 9.5% against a basket of major currencies this year, after President Donald Trump's trade war sparked fears for the world's biggest economy and cast doubt over the dollar's traditional status as a haven for investors.
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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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Blame London, not China, for silver short squeeze, market analyst Lanci says
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-12-26 21:01 Section: Daily Dispatches9p ET Friday, December 26, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
In his daily commentary for Arcadia Economics, commodity market analyst Vince Lanci says China is not to blame for the explosion in silver and really wants to make the market more orderly. The real problem in silver, Lanci says, is that the London bullion banks don't have the metal they pretend to have and are the cause of the short squeeze that is underway.
Lanci's commentary is 20 minutes long and can be viewed at the Arcadia Economics channel at YouTube here:
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