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Gold and silver are entering a critical technical phase as volatility accelerates and market moves compress into shorter, more aggressive cycles. After rallying from roughly $4,000 to $5,600, gold corrected sharply to $4,100 and is now attempting to reclaim key resistance near $4,900. In this episode of Chart This, Gary Wagner, editor of The Gold Forecast, explains why $4,900 is the level to watch, noting that a breakout could open the path toward $5,100 and a potential retest of the highs. He also points to the recent pattern of a lower high and lower low as a sign that the…

Jerome Powell claims inflation expectations are anchored, but skyrocketing commodity prices are telling a much darker story. Tavi Costa joins Jeremy Szafron to break down why the Federal Reserve has lost control of the inflation narrative and why a historic hard asset breakout has just begun. In this Kitco News interview, Tavi Costa of Azuria Capital details why the global economy is entering a 1970s style stagflation cycle. Costa explains that with federal debt at record levels, the central bank cannot raise rates to fight the current energy and supply shocks, leaving them entirely trapped. He exposes the massive divergence…

A “terrible storm” is approaching the US bond market as the global financial architecture begins a fundamental shift toward hard assets, according to Colonel Douglas Macgregor. With gold inching above $4,600 and silver rebounding into the mid $70s, the guest argues that the economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East is reaching a critical tipping point. According to Macgregor, the real reason the Strait of Hormuz closed was due to insurance giants like Lloyd’s of London—not direct military force – effectively halting commercial traffic. In this exclusive interview, Macgregor provides a blunt assessment of what he claims is…

Did retail traders just panic-sell the bottom to the world’s largest asset manager? On the exact same day Bitcoin flushed to $83,000 on Bank of Japan rate hike fears, Vanguard—the $8 Trillion giant that famously blocked crypto—officially opened its platform to Bitcoin ETFs. This massive shift in market structure sent over $1 billion in volume flooding into the ETFs within minutes of the US open, signaling a potential “wealth transfer” from retail hands to institutional wallets. In this market update, Jeremy Szafron sits down with Wendy O (Host of The O Show) to investigate whether this volatility is a trap.…

The “Paper” markets are in a panic, but the “Physical” world is just waking up. Philippe Gijsels returns to Kitco News to break down a week of absolute chaos: from a blistering 8.4% annualized PPI print that has the Federal Reserve’s hands tied, to the massive escalation in the Middle East. We explore the first direct strikes on Iran’s upstream gas infrastructure at South Pars and why $109 Brent oil is just the beginning of a fragmented, weaponized energy order. Gijsels provides his most aggressive outlook to date, detailing why he believes Gold is headed to $10,000 and Silver is…

Silver’s powerful rally may be entering a new phase, and the biggest opportunity could now lie in mining equities. Speaking with Kitco News at PDAC 2026, Peter Krauth, author of The Great Silver Bull and editor of Silver Stock Investor, said the market has likely moved beyond its early accumulation stage and into the awareness phase of the bull cycle. He expects volatility to remain a defining feature of the market this year as prices continue climbing. Krauth also warned that structural pressure may be building in the paper silver market. “If you get some big futures holder that says,…