Gold Falls as Oil Pushes Fed Rate-Hike Bets Higher 

A sharp drop in gold and an even sharper one in silver looked like classic Fed-driven selling today, but the real trigger was oil. Here’s the mechanism connecting crude prices to rate expectations, and why the thesis behind owning metal hasn’t changed.

Gold Steadies Near $4,180. A GDP Upgrade Just Undercut the Inflation Miss.

A softer-than-expected inflation print should have lifted gold. An upward GDP revision overruled it, keeping an October Fed hike alive.

Gold’s 7-Week Low: What the Chart Says Happens Next

Gold and silver both hit fresh multi-week lows today. Here’s where the chart says the decline actually stops, and what would have to happen for it to reverse.

Gold Falls 3% as Hormuz Standoff Lifts Fed Hike Odds to 66%

Gold and silver both fell Monday after Iran’s Hormuz reopening offer was rejected. The real force behind the selloff is a hiking Federal Reserve, not the war itself, and it’s hitting silver harder than gold.

What Is a FOMC Meeting? What the Fed Decides and How Gold Reacts

The Fed just hiked rates for the first time since 2023, and gold’s reaction wasn’t what the textbook predicts. Here’s what an FOMC meeting actually decides, how the committee is structured, and the one number, not the headline vote, that actually moves gold and silver.

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.

Gold Fell 1.7% Today. Silver Fell 3.6%. Five Signals Point at the Dollar, Not Demand.

The dollar and the Fed’s rate path are setting gold and silver’s price this week. Every demand signal points the other way. ETF holdings hit a seven-month high while gold fell — see the five signals separating price from ownership.

Fed Officials Turn Hawkish. Gold’s Iran-Diplomacy Bounce Can’t Hold.

Two Fed presidents spoke Monday, with no vote and no meeting scheduled, and gold gave back its early Iran-diplomacy bounce anyway. Here’s the real-yield mechanism behind today’s pullback, and why the long-term case hasn’t changed.

Jobless Claims Just Beat Estimates. Gold Rallied Anyway. Here Are 4 More Signals Behind It.

Jobless claims beat estimates today, which should have cooled gold. It didn’t. Here are five signals, from a record options expiry to a new Tether financing deal, that explain what’s actually driving gold and silver right now.

Gold and Silver Rip Higher as the Fed-Hike Selloff Reverses

Gold and silver are ripping higher Thursday, clawing back Wednesday’s Fed-hike selloff as a Saudi pipeline outage eases and Treasury yields pull back. Silver’s gain is running well ahead of gold’s.