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Is Gold Back? Fiscal Risks and ETF Demand Fuel the Rebound

Gold plunged in March. The LBMA Gold Price PM in USD fell 12% in the month, weighed by rapidly cooling expectations of future Fed cuts – due to inflationary fears stemming from the Middle East war – and momentum factors…

Gold Nears Double Top Formation, Raising Risk of a Sell-Off

Wall Street’s September debut reinforced its reputation as the weakest trading month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) closed at 45,002.90, falling 541.98 points or 1.19%. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) ended at…

Has Iranian Crude Become Irrelevant to Global Oil Supply?

On 29 March, Iran launched 15 ballistic missiles at Ukraine. All of them were intercepted and none hit their intended targets. This attack was in response to Ukrainian President Zelensky’s interview to NBC News on 28 Ma…

Oil Near $90 Exposes the Cost of Tight Global Refining Capacity

When the global benchmark Brent crude price surges past the $90-per-barrel mark and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz effectively drops to zero amid US-Iran military confrontation, the script from the past half-centu…

Diesel Prices Expose the Energy Shock Brent Is Hiding

This analysis explains how the March 2026 Middle East conflict has split the global oil market into two divergent realities: a futures market pricing amid a relatively short-lived disruption and a physical market where …

Gold Breaks Key Support as Selling Pressure Builds Below $4,444

Gold (XAU/USD) slides to fresh 11-week lows on Wednesday as mounting speculation that the Federal Reserve (Fed) could raise interest rates later this year weighs on demand for the non-yielding metal. At the time of writ…

Gold’s Rebound Faces a Double Headwind: Yields and Oil

The gold market staged a dramatic counter-trend move that caught traders off guard. Under the simultaneous assault of three traditional headwinds — a strengthening U.S. dollar index, climbing U.S. Treasury yields, and p…

Oil Prices Depend on Hormuz as Demand Destruction Deepens

With the average price of gasoline in the United States above $4.50 a gallon — about a 40 percent rise since the Iran war began in late February — Americans have been climbing into their cars less often, and stepping on…