On October 20th, gold reached an all-time high of almost $4400/oz. A price that is even more impressive if you consider the yellow metal began 2025 at just $2,658/oz. marking an almost 65% climb. To put that into perspective, that’s more than six times gold’s historic annual growth rate from 2000 to 2025. The surge has largely been fuelled by geopolitical instability and market insecurity - from trade tensions and tariff wars to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown (at the time of writing) and the risk of recession in the world’s largest economies. Then on October 21st, gold dropped 6.3% - its biggest weekly drop ... (full story)