Markets
Five catalysts combine to create ‘one of the more compelling upside setups we have seen in precious metals’ – Citadel Securities’ Rubner - KITCO
Markets
Price correction ‘improved the long-term risk-reward profile’ for both gold and silver – Sprott’s Smirnova - KITCO
Markets
Barrick and Newmont gold mining truce clears way for IPO - Financial Times
Macro
How Government Corruption Turned Iran’s Oil Wealth Into A Chain Of Economic And Institutional Crises - OpEd - Eurasia Review
Energy
The latest Bloomberg data show that shipping transits through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely disrupted Monday morning, even as Iran and Oman reportedly moved closer to a deal. Brent crude futures traded near $85 a barrel as markets priced in the possibility that a deal to reopen the maritime
opinion
California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax is being sold to voters as a way to replenish the state’s tax coffers with billions of new dollars. What it actually will do is to end the vital capital investment that has driven California’s economy for decades.
Markets
Gold softens, silver firms as CPI week tests Fed repricing - Kitco AM Report - KITCO
Energy
Complex systems reveal their true characteristics only under stress. Disturbance exposes assumptions that routine operation conceals and becomes the catalyst for adaptation. Capital reassesses risk, governments reconsider policy, and markets establish a new equilibrium. The resulting system may ulti
Markets
Gold could reclaim $5,000/oz in two years, prices could gain 9% in 2026 - Catalyst Funds’ Miller - KITCO
Markets
China’s PBOC Ships Gold to Hong Kong for Global Hub - SilverTrade
Macro
Treasury Secretary Says the Strait of Hormuz Will Be Irrelevant in Two Years - MishTalk
Energy
Kazakhstan is looking to re-route part of its crude oil exports away from its Black Sea export terminal and on pipelines through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey amid continued threats to its shipments from the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. “Transportation through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan sy