Gold’s Price Barely Moved. Five Institutions Repositioned Anyway.

Russia tightened its own gold export rules, Britain’s regulator opened the door to tokenized bullion, Rio Tinto built a bigger trading desk, China’s top gold miner went shopping for mines, and Wall Street quietly repositioned, all in one week.

Iran Repeated Its Hormuz Demand at the UN. The Market Already Priced It In.

A UN speech repeated a demand Iran’s own negotiators had already made in private the day before. Markets had nothing new to price. This piece explains why the dollar and Fed rate odds, not the Strait of Hormuz, are setting gold and silver’s price today.