Do You Have to Report Gold Stored in a Foreign Vault? FBAR and FATCA Rules Explained

The IRS says directly held gold isn’t reportable under FATCA. FBAR asks a different question, one that depends on your vault’s custody structure, not the metal or the country. Here’s the distinction, straight from IRS and FinCEN’s own text.

Gold’s Tiny Output Is Worth Twice Aluminum’s. Here Are Four More Signals Like It.

Gold is choppy near $4,400 today, but four other signals say more: gold’s output value against aluminum, LBMA’s conference filling a month early, UBS’s structural buy case, and silver’s own outperformance.

Fed Hike Odds Went From 54% to 26% to 58%. Now It’s a Coin Flip.

Fed rate-hike odds for the September 16 decision swung from 54% to 26% to 58% in six weeks. Here’s how the odds shifted, why gold tracked every move, and why crowded futures positioning is the real risk to watch.

Silver Broke $50 After 45 Years. It Still Isn’t the Real Record.

Silver broke $50 for the first time in 45 years in January 2026 and kept going to $121.62. Here’s why the ceiling finally gave way, and why silver’s real record is still out of reach.

Gold ETFs Just Pulled In $2 Billion. Silver Investors Pulled Out.

Gold ETFs pulled in nearly $2 billion this week even as gold’s price dipped, while silver’s biggest fund saw outflows. Here’s what that paper-positioning split does and doesn’t tell you.