Fox Business: Gold, Silver Shined in 2025, Can the Luster Hold in 2026?
Article by Suzanne O'Halloran in Fox Business
Gold’s stratospheric rise, the best percentage gain since 1979, surprised even the most bullish metal mavens as Wall Street firms chased the run-up.
The precious metal, which sat at $2,606 last December, rallied over 66% in 2025, hitting a series of new highs, settling around the $4,325 level at year-end.
Looking ahead, firms, including Bank of America, see the yellow metal reaching $5,000 an ounce due to continued central bank buying, rising deficits tied to U.S. fiscal policy and a weaker U.S. dollar, wrapping its worst year since 2017 with the Wall Street Journal Dollar Index down over 6%.
"It's still underinvested, I think at the at the moment. And gold markets don't normally come to an end because their overbought, gold markets come to an end because the underlying motives that actually started the bull market have subsided and that honestly we don't see. I think everything that I outlined before and what made us bullish I think is still very much ......