What Do a Firm Fed and a Yippie Yen Mean for Gold?
A sell-on-the-trumpets rally in gold following a firmer agreement of peace between Iran and the US and an opening…
Category: Economies & Markets
BRICS Summit 2026 to Reveal the Long-Awaited Alternative Payment System, BRICS Pay
What has long been foreseen as the most important raison d’être of the BRICS organization may finally make its debut…
Central Banks Return to Net Buying of Gold Despite Turkish Sale and Hormuz Stalemate
Central banks returned to being net purchasers of gold in April, recording 19 metric tonnes of reserve additions. Poland,…
Quest to Sustain Divestment from Israel Continues Worldwide-Italy, Norway, North Carolina, Michigan
Under pressure from activists and those of conscience, millions of dollars are flowing out of the US-based Development Corporation…
Indonesian Tin Sees a Banner Quarter While Worldwide Developers Move Projects Forward
Continuing WaL’s coverage of the global tin market, Q1 performance by the state-owned Indonesian tin producer PT Timah came in…
What’s Behind Predictions of Gold Prices Continuing to Soar? Institutions Hold the Answer
Pierre Lassonde, the famous Canadian gold mining investor and executive, recently said in an interview that he believes gold…
Gold Jewelry Market Suffers Stiff Downturn Amid High Prices–a Potentially-Terminal Trend
This is part 2 of a 2-part series on the changing use-cases for gold and silver in the modern…
How Data Centers and Debasement Are Changing Millennia-old Use-Cases for Gold and Silver
This is part 1 of a 2-part series on the changing use-cases for gold and silver in the modern…
Record Debt Levels are Everywhere – Auto Loans, Credit Cards, Public Finance, Private Credit
Debt of all kinds in the US is reaching levels that seem impossible to manage to any normal set…
Countries Using Gold for Liquidity Prove the Yellow Metal Was Doing its Job
The Bank of France (BdF) recently announced it had repatriated all of its remaining gold reserves from New York…
Options for Tin Mining in North America Are Scarce, Even in Canada
Canada is blessed with huge deposits of virtually every so-called critical mineral needed for mass production of 21st century…
Like Gold, Tin Climbs Back Towards Record-High on Iran War Hopes
Earlier, WaL reported that, for the first time in 5 years, tin (Sn) is predicted to enter a supply deficit this…
Another Study Puts a Price Tag on Climate Change Damage, and it’s Just Not That Much
Scientists at Stanford University in the US have attempted to provide a cost estimate of all the CO2 emitted…
China Sets Lowest Growth Target Since 1991 Amid Shocks-Aims for ‘Iron’ Debt Control Measures
Beijing’s ruling Communist Party has set an honest and low growth rate expectation for 2026 that its chief officials…
Investors Can Add Tin to the List of Rising Metal Prices—Here Are the World’s Largest Tin Mines
The materials and commodities sector of the economy has been abuzz with talk of shortages in finished industrial metals.…
Rare Earth-Linked Stocks Firmly in Bear Market After Two ‘Transformational’ Government Bailouts
A fear of overt control by China over supplies of rare earth elements needed for advanced technologies have driven…
In the Face of Trump’s Threats, BRICS Seems No Closer to Building Alternative Institutions
India holds the rotating presidency of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) this year, and following last year’s…
Will Bad News Continue to Be Good News for US Equities?
For the majority of Joe Biden’s Presidency, interest rates remained higher than historically normal. This had the funny effect…
Will Trump’s Pick of Warsh for Fed Chairman Curtail or Accelerate the ‘Sell America’ Trade?
This is part 2 of a 2-part series on the so-called Sell America trade. You can read part 1…
What Is the ‘Sell America’ Trade, and What Does it Mean for Trump’s Econ Agenda?
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on the so-called Sell America Trade. When President Donald Trump…