🪙 Gold Reclaims $5,000
🪙 Gold Reclaims $5,000
🪙 Gold's comeback story
Gold bounced back this week, returning to the $5,000 per ounce level after recent declines. The recovery was driven by safe-haven demand as equity markets weakened.
Key Movements:
- Gold reclaimed $5,000/oz mark
- Oil prices rose on Middle East tensions
- Brent crude holding between mid-$60s and low-$70s
Context: This rebound follows gold's climb above $4,850 in late January, when geopolitical tensions and risk-off sentiment pushed precious metals higher. The pattern continues: when equities struggle, investors rotate into traditional safe havens like gold and oil.
Overall Market Risk appetite took a beating yesterday. The S&P 500 dropped 2.1%, Nasdaq fell 2.4%, and the Dow shed 1.8%, marking the worst day since October. Treasury yields spiked to their highest since August as geopolitical tensions escalated over Trump's Greenland
Stocks Today opened with futures slightly higher after yesterday's carnage, but don't mistake that for conviction. Tech stocks remain under pressure. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft are all down in premarket. Netflix crashed 7% after earnings despite beating expectations. The
Commodities. Gold and silver both rallied hard yesterday. Oil caught a bid on the Iran news—Trump announced 25% tariffs on countries trading with Iran. Metals and oil both benefiting from uncertainty. This is classic haven buying paired with inflation hedges. Forex. The dollar
Commodities Gold had a strong session and is one of the few clear winners today, pushing above 5,300 as traders keep hedging policy and election risk. That strength bleeds into the broader “real asset” trade and explains why miners and some cyclicals are catching flows even as
Stocks. A lot of red on the board. Tech software got hit harder than the broader market, but energy caught a bid on Trump's Iran tariff announcement. Metals are holding up—gold and silver both rallied. The real money move has been rotation away from growth into value and hard
⛏️ Commodities Gold rebounded strongly this week — reclaiming levels around/above the $5,000 oz mark after recent pullbacks. Safe-haven demand lifted prices as equities softened.  Oil climbed amid Middle East geopolitical risk and tightening supply sentiment, with Brent
Commodities Gold just hit a new all-time high above $4,850 per ounce. Silver broke above $95. Safe haven bid is real. The geopolitical premium from the Greenland spat alone drove gold up 2% overnight. From January 1 to now, gold is up 9.6% and sits 73% higher year-over-year.
The tech side of equities is bleeding though. Salesforce down 7.38%, Sabre down 7.31%, Chegg down 6.9%—the whole software cohort catching it from disappointing earnings. JPMorgan and Visa also stumbled. S&P 500 down 0.29%. The shift is clear: capital rotating out of megacap
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