Why gold prices could soar another 20% next year, according to top Wall Street forecasters

View: Source Gold prices could surge as much as 20% in the coming year, top forecasters say. Wall Street sees tailwinds like central bank buying and Fed rate cuts boosting bullion’s value. Sustained demand from private investors also adds to gold’s bull case. Gold’s (GC=F) hot streak that boosted the metal to records could push on through 2026. That’s according to forecasters on Wall Street, …

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US needs to break China’s supply chain chokehold to win the tech race

View: Source American leadership in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology at risk. Beijing has repeatedly shown the world that it is willing to weaponize its dominance of supply chains, and President Donald Trump had to de-escalate the latest rare-earth dispute during his recent trip to Asia. But rare earths are only a small window into the power that China could have over …

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Value of EV battery nickel second-highest on record, cobalt at 30-month high

View: Source In 2016, Elon Musk famously said: “Although they’re called lithium-ion, the actual percentage of lithium in a lithium-ion cell is approximately 2%. Technically, our cells should be called nickel-graphite, because the primary constituent in the cell as a whole is nickel. There’s a little bit of lithium in there, but it’s like the salt on the salad.” In 2016, nickel cobalt …

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