US EditionGold Passes the $4,500 Threshold to New Record High
Gold prices surged over 70% in 2025 as markets anticipate two US Federal Reserve rate cuts and geopolitical tensions with Venezuela increase, boosting safe-haven demand.
- In Asian trade overnight, gold broke past $4,500, peaking at $4,519.78 as markets reacted to year-end flows.
- Amid this year's market shocks, investor optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut rates next year and US President Donald Trump's last week "blockade" order on Venezuelan tankers increased gold demand.
- Market infrastructure changes, such as banks expanding trading and vault services, support liquidity as Société Générale, Morgan Stanley, and Mitsui grow activity this year.
- The rally spilled into silver and base precious metals, with silver hitting a record $72.27 and platinum and palladium reaching multiyear highs, while the S&P 500 closed up 0.46% to 6,909.79 yesterday.
- Historical charts suggest 40-year and 20-year gold price charts show gold can spend years in declines, while researchers Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey argue gold is not a great long-term inflation hedge.
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The quota for spot gold continues to climb this Wednesday, when it has for the first time exceeded the threshold of $4,500 per ounce, thus closing its best year since 1979 for this active refuge, with an accumulated revaluation of more than 70 per cent in 2025. The main reason for this historic peak lies in the expectations of significant purchases of precious metal by the world’s major central banks in 2026. Likewise, the prospects of new rate …
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The gold rush continues this Wednesday on Christmas Eve. The ounce of gold metal is paid for the first time above more than $4,500, after an increase in the environment of 1%. The active refuge par excellence accumulates a revaluation of more than 70% in 2025, an exercise that will end as its best year since 1979. Silver also advances and validates its historical maxims, as well as copper. Continue reading
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