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Gold prices extended their extraordinary gains, with bullion prices surpassing their inflation-adjusted record set more than 4 decades ago. Spot gold prices rose 0.1% on the session to $3,656.40 an ounce, topping the inflation-adjusted record of $3,498.77 an ounce established in 1980.

A number of precious metal HTSUS codes were added to Annex 2 (tariff-free regardless of origin). A new Annex 3 introduces conditional exemptions tied to reciprocal trade agreements.

Silver leads global assets in 2025, surging 40% on bets of a Fed cut, tight supply, and geopolitical tensions.
Experts expect US retail demand to slow down, with a tug-of-war between profit takers and trend followers.

A historic price for the world’s oldest safe-haven asset signals waning confidence in the dollar and mounting pressure on the Fed.

SURPRISINGLY, one of the best-performing metal this year is not gold but ruthenium. This is especially relevant for South Africa as it will supply 71% of global primary ruthenium in 2025, according to Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies.

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One-kilo bars are the most common form of gold traded on Comex, the world’s largest gold futures market, with a majority coming from Switzerland, the world’s largest gold refiner and a major gold exporter to the U.S. that now faces U.S. tariffs of 39%.

“When a market tightens like this — whether it’s for good reasons, bad reasons, idiosyncratic reasons — it should pull material out of the shadows,” said Jay Tatum, who runs a metals fund at commodities-focused Valent Asset Management and has been bullish on platinum for about two years. Lease rates suggest the “acute tightness” isn’t over, he said.

The platinum price rally during the first half of 2025 has helped most mines recover from loss-making positions but the industry is still far from adding new production, Valterra Platinum CEO Craig Miller said on Monda

Johannesburg, South Africa-based precious metals mining and production firm Sibanye-Stillwater Group says it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Metallix Refining Inc., Shrewsbury, New Jersey, for $82 million.