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Silver
The brief on silver — the monetary-metal trade and its industrial second life.
Monday, July 6, 2026
Monday's reopen answered the weekend - and it wasn't holiday liquidity: the hard-asset bid HELD. Gold extended +1.5% to ~$4,175 and silver ripped +3.6% - while tech ALSO reclaimed (Nasdaq +1.1%, S&P +0.7%) and the VIX fell to 15.6. A broad melt-up; nothing gave back. The one thing that did NOT rally: the 30-year at 5.00%, with June Fed minutes + Treasury auctions this week. The AI trade AND the gold hedge are both climbing into the rate ceiling. Oil glut easing the last premium: WTI soft ~$68.
Monday 2026-07-06 - the reopen after the July 4th weekend
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US markets were closed for Independence Day (4 July, a Saturday) - but the markets that never shut kept moving. Over the long weekend GOLD pushed to a new high near $4,176 and silver to ~$62, bitcoin climbed toward $63,000, and the dollar stayed soft (~100.9) - the same hard-asset and de-dollarisation bid that defined the week, running on without a Wall Street session. Equities last closed Thursday; the global AI-'bubble' debate carried on.
Long-weekend edition · 2026-07-04 - US markets closed for Independence Day (equities & yields = Thu 2 Jul close)
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