Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Outlook: All Share Near Record Highs as Precious Metals Surge Sets Up Monday Reopen

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange heads into the final trading stretch of 2025 with a familiar year-end cocktail: holiday-thinned liquidity, a powerful precious-metals rally, and a softer U.S. dollar backdrop that tends to favor emerging-market assets and commodity-heavy equity markets like South Africa’s.

Toronto Stock Exchange Outlook: TSX Reopens Monday With Oil Sliding, Precious Metals Surging, and Year-End Liquidity Thin

Toronto Stock Exchange Outlook: TSX Reopens Monday With Oil Sliding, Precious Metals Surging, and Year-End Liquidity Thin

The Toronto Stock Exchange heads into Monday’s reopening with a familiar late-December cocktail: thin liquidity, big commodity moves, and geopolitics that refuses to stay politely off the trading floor. After a holiday-interrupted stretch that left markets quiet but not calm, investors will be weighing whether the TSX’s 2025 leadership—powered by metals and financials—still has fuel, or whether energy’s headwinds and a firmer Canadian dollar start to bite.
Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) Stock: Silver’s $77 Breakout Lifts Shares — But a Discount to NAV Could Be the Next Catalyst

Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) Stock: Silver’s $77 Breakout Lifts Shares — But a Discount to NAV Could Be the Next Catalyst

Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust enters the final trading days of 2025 with momentum on its side after a powerful precious-metals surge pushed its shares sharply higher into the weekend. The trust—designed to give investors exchange-traded exposure to physical gold and silver—closed Friday’s session at $48.97, up about 3.8% on the day. Sprott
Basic Materials Stocks: Copper Hits Records, Precious Metals Surge, and the Materials Sector Leads—What Investors Need Before Monday’s Open

Basic Materials Stocks: Copper Hits Records, Precious Metals Surge, and the Materials Sector Leads—What Investors Need Before Monday’s Open

Basic materials stocks are heading into the final trading stretch of 2025 with fresh momentum—and it’s being driven less by company-specific headlines and more by a powerful macro cocktail: record-setting metals prices, expectations for easier U.S. monetary policy, and year-end market rotation into cyclical sectors.
Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) Stock: Gold and Silver Just Hit New Records—What Investors Should Watch Before Monday’s Open

Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust (CEF) Stock: Gold and Silver Just Hit New Records—What Investors Should Watch Before Monday’s Open

NEW YORK — As of 5:18 a.m. ET on Saturday, December 27, 2025, U.S. stock exchanges are closed for the weekend. That timing matters for investors watching Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust, because the trust’s units won’t trade again until the next regular session—while precious-metals headlines can keep moving.
Gold Price Today in India (December 27, 2025): 24K, 22K, 18K Rates in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru; Silver Near ₹2.40 Lakh/kg as Record Rally Continues

Gold Price Today in India (December 27, 2025): 24K, 22K, 18K Rates in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru; Silver Near ₹2.40 Lakh/kg as Record Rally Continues

New Delhi: India’s gold price today remains parked at historically elevated levels as a global year-end surge in precious metals continues to ripple through domestic markets. After MCX gold crossed ₹1.39 lakh per 10 grams on Friday and international prices hit fresh records, city-wise retail quotes for 24K, 22K and 18K gold on Saturday, December 27, 2025 show only minor day-to-day moves—while silver prices stay near record territory. The Times of India+1
Gold Price Today & Silver Rate Today (26 December 2025): IBJA Gold Climbs, Silver Near ₹2.36 Lakh/kg From Delhi to Bikaner — What’s Driving the Rally

Gold Price Today & Silver Rate Today (26 December 2025): IBJA Gold Climbs, Silver Near ₹2.36 Lakh/kg From Delhi to Bikaner — What’s Driving the Rally

Gold and silver prices surged again in India on Friday, December 26, 2025, extending a year-end rally that has left both investors and jewellery buyers recalibrating budgets just days before the New Year. The spike in domestic rates tracked a record-setting run in global precious metals, where silver and gold hit fresh all-time highs amid a mix of safe-haven demand, expectations of easier US monetary policy, and thin year-end liquidity. Reuters+1
27 December 2025
Silver Price Today: Spot Silver Hits Fresh Record Near $79 as Fed Rate-Cut Bets and Tight Supply Supercharge the Rally

Silver Price Today: Spot Silver Hits Fresh Record Near $79 as Fed Rate-Cut Bets and Tight Supply Supercharge the Rally

Silver is closing out the week with a statement move. After breaking through multiple psychological levels in thin, year-end trading, spot silver pushed into new all-time highs on Friday, extending a powerful 2025 run that has turned the “white metal” into one of the standout performers across global markets. Reuters+1
Silver Price Nears $78 as Record-Breaking Rally Pulls Gold and Platinum to Fresh Highs

Silver Price Nears $78 as Record-Breaking Rally Pulls Gold and Platinum to Fresh Highs

Silver’s surge to the mid-$70s has turned into one of the most dramatic commodity moves of 2025—and it’s not happening in isolation. On Friday, December 26, spot silver jumped to a new all-time high around $77.40 per troy ounce, pushing year-to-date gains to roughly 167% and putting the metal within striking distance of the $78 level that traders have been watching closely. Reuters+1
26 December 2025
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
Stock Market Today (Dec. 26, 2025): Dow and S&P 500 Hover Near Record Highs as Silver Breaks $75 and Gold Tops $4,500

Stock Market Today (Dec. 26, 2025): Dow and S&P 500 Hover Near Record Highs as Silver Breaks $75 and Gold Tops $4,500

Wall Street reopened Friday, December 26, for the first full U.S. trading session after Christmas—and the mood was calm on the surface, even as the bigger picture looks anything but ordinary. U.S. stock index futures were largely flat in thin, post-holiday trading, keeping the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 within reach of fresh highs after both indexes logged record closes in the holiday-shortened session earlier this week. Reuters
26 December 2025
Silver Tops $75 as Gold and Platinum Hit New Records in Holiday Trading: Global Markets Wrap for Dec. 26, 2025

Silver Tops $75 as Gold and Platinum Hit New Records in Holiday Trading: Global Markets Wrap for Dec. 26, 2025

Silver blasted through the $75-per-ounce threshold for the first time on Friday, December 26, as an end-of-year squeeze in liquidity collided with a powerful mix of rate-cut expectations, a softer dollar, and surging demand for precious metals as both hedges and industrial inputs. Gold held above $4,500 after notching fresh all-time highs, while platinum and palladium erupted higher—moves that traders described as amplified by thin holiday markets and the smaller size of those metals’ trading pools. Reuters
26 December 2025
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Alphabet

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Chicago Fed National Activity Index

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PDD Holdings earnings

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XPeng earnings

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