Yet more gold and silver record highs this week in the strongest dollar environment in years: Gold to $4,887.82 per ​ounce on Wednesday, silver to $95.87 on Tuesday

 -- CNBC

But the media and the so-called experts prattle on about dollar weakness.

 

Gold powers higher despite Trump's TACO on Greenland

 

Spot gold hit a record high $4,765.93 today, spot silver a record $95.87

 -- CNBC

Ratio 1:49.71 

Gold hit a record $4,642.72 on Wednesday, silver hit an all-time high of $93.57 today

 -- CNBC

The dollar remained strong in Dec 2025 at the same time that the metals have been surging

 

Gold hits record high of $4,641.40/oz, silver at $92.23

 

Another new high for gold at $4,634.33, another for silver at $89.10

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Today's silver high held at $85.75, but gold nudged it higher again to $4,629.94

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Gold hits record high $4,627.27, silver hits record high $85.75

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Gold surged 64% in 2025, silver 147%, dwarfing more traditional investments

... [Gold] Bullion surged 64% in 2025, its biggest annual gain since 1979, driven by Fed rate cuts, geopolitical tensions, strong central bank buying, and rising ETF holdings. ...

Spot silver advanced 4.6% to $74.52 per ounce, after hitting an all-time high of $83.62 on Monday, while platinum jumped 4.7% at $2,150.46 per ounce, after rising to an all-time high of $2,478.50 on Monday.

Both metals recorded their best year ever, with silver leading by posting 147% annual gains, driven by its designation as a critical U.S. mineral, supply shortages and low inventories amid rising industrial and investment demand. ...

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Meanwhile in more traditional investments in 2025:

VMMSX +35.66% emerging markets fund

VTIAX +32.18% total international stock index fund

VGENX +20.62 energy fund 

VFIAX +17.83 Vanguard 500 index fund

VGHCX +17.31 healthcare fund

VTSAX +17.12% total stock market index fund

VFICX +9.53% intermediate term investment grade bond fund

VWESX +7.18% long term investment grade bond fund

VBTLX +7.15% total bond index fund admiral

VBMFX +7.03% total bond index fund investor

VFSTX +6.73% short term investment grade bond fund

VMRXX +4.23% money market fund

VGSLX +3.19 real estate fund.

Year-end profit-taking isn't stopping metals

 

Gold and silver retreat from new record high prices at $4,549.71 and $83.62

 ... Spot gold declined 1.4% at $4,470.56 per ounce, after hitting a record high ‌of $4,549.71 ‌on Friday. ...

Spot silver shed 4.8% at $75.32 per ounce, retreating from an all-time high of $83.62 hit earlier in the session. ...

Spot platinum fell 6% to $2,305.15 per ounce, after rising ⁠to an all-time high of $2,478.50 earlier in the day, while palladium plunged 13.2% to $1,669.11 per ounce. ... 

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A Christmas of silver and gold

 

... Spot gold was down 0.4% at $4,468.96 per ounce, after marking a record high ‌of $4,525.18 ‌earlier in the session. ...

Silver prices have surged 147% year-to-date on strong fundamentals, outpacing bullion’s gain of over 70% ‍during the same period. ...

Silver hit an all-time high of $72.70 but was last down 0.8% ‍at $70.86 an ounce. ...

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Spot gold new record high nominal price $4,497.55, silver $69.98

 CNBC here.

Stories like this about China destroying the U.S. Dollar just make me want to howl

But hey, what do you expect from MarketWatch?

China quietly destroying the dollar...

... As more commodities get priced in yuan instead of dollars, demand for dollars softens. As central banks diversify into gold, they buy fewer Treasurys. As fewer foreigners buy U.S. debt, interest rates drift higher. As the dollar’s purchasing power erodes, everything you import costs more. ...

This, like most of the story, is a load of BS.

Global demand for U.S. debt is at an ALL TIME HIGH, a record $9.2 trillion in the last three months through October.

You'll know the yuan has replaced the dollar when the world buys Chinese sovereign debt instead of ours. And right now the world owns less than $300 billion of Chinese sovereign debt, billion with a B, not trillion with a T.

Nobody trusts China like they trust us. 

The writer, who owns gold and silver, wants you to dump long term bonds and buy short term bills and . . . gold and silver. Gee, what a coincidence. 

Meanwhile foreign governments continue to prefer long term U.S. Treasuries and own relatively few bills.

And the dollar is relatively strong, not weak as the writer says, in November 2025. 

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Gold and silver smash nominal price records to start Christmas week 2025: Gold to $4,426.66 and silver to $69.44

New nominal record high for silver today at $67.20

 

Gold and silver at 6:59 AM today

 

Gold is back above $4,300 this morning and silver made a new record $64.65 on Friday

 CNBC here.

The record high for gold remains $4,381.21 reached on Monday, currently trading near $4,120