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Silver Tops $75, Gold Breaks $4,530 and Platinum Hits Records as Precious Metals ETFs Surge Into Year-End 2025

Silver Tops $75, Gold Breaks $4,530 and Platinum Hits Records as Precious Metals ETFs Surge Into Year-End 2025

On Friday, December 26, 2025, the precious-metals rally that’s defined much of this year pushed into fresh territory: silver traded above $75 an ounce for the first time, gold hit another all-time high near $4,530, and platinum extended a record run with outsized gains—all in a market that’s being turbocharged by thin post-holiday liquidity, shifting rate expectations, and a scramble for both safe-haven and industrial metals exposure. Reuters For investors who prefer ETFs over physical bars, the moves are reverberating across the biggest names in the space—SLV, GLD and PPLT—after a year in which silver and platinum have dramatically outpaced gold’s already-stunning advance. Etf
26 December 2025
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Precious Metals Bonanza: Gold & Silver Smash Records as Platinum and Palladium Rally

Precious Metals Bonanza: Gold & Silver Smash Records as Platinum and Palladium Rally

Late-September 2025 saw a broad rally across the precious metals. Gold futures hit fresh all-time highs – by Sept. 26, December gold settled near $3,809/oz reuters.com. Silver climbed in lockstep, reaching about $46.41 on Sept. 26 reuters.com. Platinum and palladium likewise surged: platinum hit $1,568.21 on Friday reuters.com, and palladium jumped above $1,280. These gains pushed all four metals into strong bull-market territory. Traders note that all sectors of bullion demand are rallying – and even traditionally lagging metals like silver and platinum are catching up. As one analyst observed, with gold so high, investors have been “turning to more affordable alternatives,” lifting silver and platinum prices reuters.com. The move higher was punctuated by a brief set-back following the Fed’s September meeting. At the Fed’s Sept. 17 meeting, the Fed cut rates 25 bps reuters.com and initially sent gold briefly spiking to $3,707 on Sept. 17 reuters.com. However, cautionary comments from Fed Chair Powell prompted profit-taking the next day, and spot gold eased back to the $3,600–$3,700 range reuters.com. Even so, analysts stress this dip was “corrective in nature” and gold’s long-term uptrend remains intact reuters.com. Overall, the net effect is that gold & friends remain very strong, with each
28 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • Founder-Led Stocks Seen Sticking With Strategy, Holding Value Edge
    June 30, 2026, 1:47 PM EDT. Founder-led companies tend to hold on to their business plans longer, with leaders who have a stake in results. This can help steady them when inflation jumps or energy prices swing. Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX:FLT) is moving more into corporate, luxury, and cruise travel, ramping up digital investments and carrying out a share buyback that props up earnings per share. FLT sits on a A$2.45 billion market cap and trades at a price-to-earnings ratio under its sector average, a set-up that could draw value hunters, even with operational risks in the mix. Macquarie Technology Group (ASX:MAQ) is another founder-run name; it handles telecoms and cloud for business and government, betting on secure data and networks as core themes. Both show how founder-led firms pin leadership and strategy together.
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