Wall Street Keeps Buying Gold. Washington Keeps Sending Mixed Signals.

Five signals from Wall Street and Washington point the same direction on gold this week — a fading bond buyback, a surging ETF, a widening silver deficit, a bullish options desk, and a gap between softening jobs data and rising rate-hike odds.

Iran’s Gold Sector Just Got Named in U.S. Sanctions. Gold Is Selling Off Anyway.

Gold’s newest sanctions exposure and today’s G20 push on Iran are real developments. Neither one explains today’s selloff. The Fed does, and the two stories run on different clocks.