Citigroup Predicts 13% Surge in Silver Prices for 2025

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. The MPC adopts a medium-term and forward-looking approach to determine the monetary stance required to achieve the inflation target sustainably. At its meeting ending on 6 August 2025, the MPC voted by a majority of 5–4 to reduce Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 4%, rather than maintaining it at 4.25%. There has been substantial disinflation over the past two and a half years, following previous external shocks, supported by the restrictive stance of monetary policy. That progress has allowed for reductions in Bank Rate over the past year. The Committee remains focused on squeezing out any existing or emerging persistent inflationary pressures, to return inflation sustainably to its 2% target in the medium term. The path of disinflation in underlying dom #BOE *BANK OF ENGLAND CUTS KEY INTEREST RATE TO 4% AFTER 5-4 VOTE - BBG *BOE: 5 VOTED FOR QUARTER-POINT CUT, 4 TO KEEP RATE UNCHANGED *BOE's Taylor Voted For Cut To 3.75%, But Backed Move To 4% In Second Vote *BOE SEES INFLATION PEAKING AT 4% IN SEPTEMBER, UP FROM 3.7% Bank of England cuts interest rates by a quarter point to 4% as balancing act continues The Bank of England cut interest rates from 4.25% to 4% on Thursday as the central bank resumes a “gradual and careful” approach to lowering interest rates. The BOE was widely expected to trim rates by 25 basis points at its latest monetary policy meeting, but traders and economists were keen to see the breakdown of support for the decision among the bank’s policymakers. As it turned out on Thursday, the nine-member MPC voted by a majority of 5–4 to reduce the key interest rate, the “Bank Rate,” by 25 basis points rather than keeping it on hold. Policy makers have had to weigh up sticky inflation — the consumer pr

Amid geopolitical uncertainty, there is a silver lining for gold. Investors have been pouring money into the precious metal’s ETFs this year at a rapid clip, with nearly $21 billion flowing into US-domiciled products through July, data from Morningstar Direct show. Demand hasn’t even come close to that level since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a ...

*TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER IMPOSING ADDITIONAL 25% TARIFF ON INDIA *WHITE HOUSE: TARIFF ON INDIA OVER CONTINUED RUSSIAN OIL PURCHASES Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby determine and order: Section 1. Background. Executive Order 14066 of March 8, 2022 (Prohibiting Certain Imports and New Investments With Respect to Continued Russian Federation Efforts To Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine), expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 of April 15, 2021 (Blocking Property With Respect To Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation), to include the actions taken against Ukraine by the Government of the Russian Federation. To address that unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, Executive Order 14066 prohibited, among other things, the importation into the United States of certain products of Russian Federation origin, including crude oil; petroleum; and petroleum fuels, oils, and products of their distillation. I have received additional infor *TRUMP ORDER DIRECTS IDENTIFICATION OF COUNTRIES IMPORTING RUSSIAN OIL WHITE HOUSE: IF FOREIGN RETALIATION OCCURS, PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY AMEND ORDER TO ENSURE ITS EFFECTIVENESS