Tag: Gold
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Dubai Gold & Commodities: How Real Money Moves in 2026
Forget the screens. Forget the ETFs. Forget the paper promises. When real capital wants real assets—gold you can weigh, assay, vault, and move—it goes to Dubai. Dubai isn’t a “market.” It’s a clearing house for hard money. A place where bullion, doré, copper, diamonds, and sugar move quietly between sovereigns, refiners, and institutions while retail…
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Why Paper Gold Is a Trap
Paper gold was never designed to protect you.It was designed to control you. For decades, investors have been told they “own gold” because a brokerage statement says so. ETFs, futures, unallocated accounts, synthetics—layers of paper promises stacked on top of a finite physical metal. That works…until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, paper holders discover…
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The Two Assets That Best Meet 2026’s Global Needs
Why Gold and XRP together form the most neutral, honest monetary stack of the next era As we move deeper into 2026, the global financial system is no longer suffering from a lack of innovation. It is suffering from a lack of trust. Currencies are issued by indebted sovereigns. Settlement systems are controlled by intermediaries.…
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How to Buy a Mine in British Columbia (Without Getting Buried Alive)
Everybody says they want hard assets—until they realize hard assets require hard decisions. Buying a mine in British Columbia isn’t about romance, gold pans, or rugged selfies in Carhartt jackets. It’s about control, cash flow, permits, and optionality. And if you don’t understand the ladder of mining assets, you’ll overpay for dirt—or worse—buy a liability…
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The Santa Claus Rally Begins
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, U.S. equity markets began the holiday‑shortened trading week on a firm footing. Broad gains in major indexes and the start of the Santa Claus rally marked this week. Following modest volatility in trading earlier in December, sentiment improved significantly as investors bet on year-end flows. As shown, the CNN…
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Seeking Investors for a Promising Gold Venture in Tanzania’s Tanga Region
A compelling opportunity has emerged from East Africa’s fast-growing gold corridor, where a junior mining firm operating in Tanzania’s Tanga Region is seeking a strategic investor to accelerate production and scale operations. For offshore investors looking to participate in the continent’s next chapter of gold development—before the majors arrive—this is precisely the profile many look…
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West Africa Gold SPA Best Practices: The New Standard for Secure, Transparent, and Global-Ready Gold Trading
In West Africa’s fast-moving gold market, the days of risky “cash-and-carry” deals are quickly—and thankfully—coming to an end. For decades, producers and buyers operated in a fragmented, informal ecosystem where physical cash payments, face-to-face exchanges, and limited documentation left both sides vulnerable to fraud, counterfeits, theft, and cross-border legal uncertainty. Today, a new era is…
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Russia’s National Wealth Fund Is Quietly Going All-In on Gold — And West Africa May Be the Hidden Source
Russia’s central bank confirmed in a Reuters report this week what markets have suspected for months: Moscow is accelerating gold accumulation inside the domestic market, dramatically increasing purchases for the National Wealth Fund (NWF). The reason? Enhanced liquidity of gold inside Russia and a forced strategic pivot away from Western currencies that Moscow can no…
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Tether’s Quiet Power Play: How the World’s Largest Stablecoin Issuer Is Becoming a Gold Market Giant
In the global offshore finance arena, few forces have risen as fast—or as quietly—as Tether, the company behind USDT, the world’s most widely used stablecoin. For years Tether has operated under the radar of traditional finance, dismissed by major institutions as a niche crypto utility. But with the company now controlling over $180 billion in…