On 24 July 2026, ICBC (the world’s largest bank by total assets) will permanently close retail gold and silver trading on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Postal Savings Bank, Ping An, and China Guangfa did the same. The official reason is risk management. But coordinated exits from China’s gold market don’t happen without a deeper story. […]
Markets began the week with yet another reminder of just how quickly the picture can change. Gold briefly slipped below $4,000 an ounce yesterday before recovering above $4,070 today. Silver has rebounded more sharply, while oil climbed above $90 a barrel, up from less than $72 at the beginning of the month, around the level […]
Gold and silver investing in 2026 is being shaped by a gap most investors have never examined. In 2025, daily gold trading volume averaged $361 billion. In the first half of 2026, it reached nearly $488 billion. The physical gold investment market that underlies it has not kept pace and the distance between paper gold […]