Friday, August 8, 2025, global markets were shaken by the announcement of a 39 percent tariff on imported gold bars weighing 100 ounces or more by the Trump administration. US December gold futures ...

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 4.34%, snapping a three-week losing streak with six consecutive days of gains. The People’s Bank of China increased its gold reserve in ...

For the second straight month, consumer borrowing was weak, indicating Americans might be close to their credit limits. Over the last several months, credit card spending has dropped, signaling that ...

As the governments around the globe continue to run up their debt tabs, they usually have very little to say about how those ultimately gets repaid.

With U.S. tariff policy by Tweet changing almost daily, VON GREYERZ principals Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg sat down over the weekend to address Trump’s latest 39% import duty on ...

Would you trade fiat dollars for common bottle caps? Probably not, right? Not unless they were some pretty special bottle caps. After all, you’d be trading money for a worthless scrap of metal you can ...

According to a report yesterday in the Financial Times, Gold bars weighing 1 kilogram and 100 ounces were classified as subject to tariff by the US Customs Border Protection agency on July 31, ...

Gold (XAU/USD) bulls have failed to breach the psychological resistance area around the $3,400 level on Friday and are showing an impulsive reversal, weighed by the broader US Dollar strength, that ...

While most retail investors in the West are still trying to figure out how to spell gold or silver, conditions in the East remain quite a bit different. Especially as China's Shanghai gold stockpile ...

Mike Maharrey kicks off the Money Metals Midweek Memo with a confession. Over a decade ago, he almost turned down a role in ...

Gold represents financial security – even when the world is against you. Russia has used its extensive gold holdings to keep its economy afloat in the midst of aggressive Western sanctions after it ...

Gold inflows into ETFs through the first half of 2025 hit levels not seen since the pandemic, and that trend continued through July. According to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council, 22 ...