Gold has been rising in value in recent months, currently trading at around $4,300 per ounce. It’s nowhere near the level of more than $5,000 that it reached early on in the year, but with the Fed recently raising interest rates and plenty of uncertainty in the markets this year, it could rally again. For investors looking to gain exposure …
Continue ReadingChina’s shipments of rare earth magnets to the US fell sharply last month, according to official Chinese customs data released Sunday. Supply of the materials, critical to high-end manufacturing, is expected to be a major point of friction at Trump’s summit with Xi this week. Shipments fell to 512 tonnes in August, down 20% from July and 13% below the …
Continue ReadingFor a long stretch of modern market history, platinum traded at a premium to gold. It was rarer, harder to extract, and carried a luxury association that jewellery marketing reinforced. That relationship inverted and then persisted in its inverted form for long enough that a generation of traders has never seen the old one. The interesting question is not when …
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