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The Week in Metals: platinum leads while gold ends flat after a dip below $4,000

August 1, 2026

Gold spent Wednesday morning testing a number its holders have watched all summer, and for a few minutes it lost. The metal traded down to $3,999.35 ahead of the Federal Reserve’s statement, then spent the next two sessions climbing back out. By Friday evening the week’s ledger read almost blank for gold, off about a […]

The Week in Metals: silver gains almost 4 percent as oil tops $100 and gold holds the line at $4,000

July 25, 2026

The week began with warplanes and ended with tankers. Nine straight nights of American strikes on Iranian targets carried gold to a two-week high above $4,160 on Wednesday, and then a run of sticky inflation data and rising Treasury yields took most of it back. By Friday evening the scoreboard read strangely calm for such […]

The Week in Metals: Gold’s Worst Week Since Early June as Oil Fans Rate Fears

July 18, 2026

The strangest thing about this week was watching gold fall while the world burned. Six days of American airstrikes on Iranian targets, fresh Iranian attacks in reply, tankers still dodging the Strait of Hormuz, and oil up double digits: on paper, a textbook week for the metal. Instead gold posted its worst five days since […]