Category: Precious Metals
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The Truth About Gold: Is China Moving From Paper Promises to Physical Metal?
China is preparing to close an important door in the precious-metals market—and every serious gold investor should understand what happens next. On July 24, 2026, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, better known as ICBC, will stop providing individual customers with precious-metals trading services connected to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Postal Savings Bank of…
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Bank of America Buys the Gold Dip as COMEX Deliveries Surge
While gold’s recent correction has unsettled short-term traders, Bank of America appears to be using the weakness as an opportunity to increase its exposure to physical bullion. According to the latest COMEX delivery activity, Bank of America’s house account stopped 487 July gold contracts on Thursday. Because each standard COMEX gold contract represents 100 troy…
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July 7: The Day Gold Settlement Moves East
On July 7, Hong Kong is expected to process the first settlement through its new gold clearing and settlement system — a milestone that may be remembered as the moment Asia stopped merely consuming gold and began building the financial infrastructure to price, settle, store, and control it. For generations, the gold market has been…
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China’s Gold-Backed RMB: The Monetary Signal Heard Around the World
Beijing’s quiet gold strategy may be the opening move in a new reserve-currency era China may not need to formally declare a “gold-backed RMB” for the market to understand what is happening. For years, Beijing has been building the architecture of a post-dollar settlement system: more gold, more bilateral trade in yuan, more offshore RMB…
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Did the U.S. Mint Just Ring the Bell on Gold Revaluation?
The $20,000 Gold Signal Hidden in America’s 250th Birthday Coin The United States Mint may have just done something extraordinary. Not by press conference. Not by Federal Reserve policy statement. Not by Treasury leak. But by price tag. The Mint has listed three ultra-limited “Freedom Ringing – Liberty Bell” Semiquincentennial pieces for America’s 250th anniversary:…
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Hallmark Bullion Opportunity: Structured Gold Supply Under an LBMA-Compliant Procedure
Invest Offshore has received a confidential introduction opportunity for qualified bullion buyers, refineries, and institutional counterparties seeking access to large-scale hallmark gold supply under a strict, bank-compliant procedure. The offering concerns non-monetary, private, second-hand recyclable bullion with stated purity of 99.95% to 99.99%, dated from 1999 to 2014. The gold is represented as being deposited…
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Silver Shock: CME Suspends Two Chinese Silver Brands from COMEX Delivery
ZeroHedge lit up the precious metals world this week by sharing a CME Group Special Executive Report that deserves careful attention, not panic, but very serious attention. On May 12, 2026, CME Group issued Special Executive Report SER# 9738, announcing that COMEX had suspended the approved status for warranting and delivery of two Chinese-origin silver…
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Gold at $5,400, $6,300, $7,200 — Is Wall Street Finally Pricing Fiat Weakness?
The major banks are no longer whispering about gold. They are putting numbers on the board that would have sounded radical only a few years ago. Goldman Sachs has reaffirmed a 2026 year-end gold target of $5,400 per ounce, citing central bank demand, diversification away from traditional reserve assets, and the possibility of lower real…
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Ft. Knox Full Of Impure Gold Unfit For International Transactions
Authored by Jp Cortez via The Mises Institute, The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. In practice, this means that most of America’s massive gold stockpile is illiquid and wouldn’t be readily accepted on the international…