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Here’s Where I Expect Gold and Silver Prices to Be Trading in 2026

Don’t expect these projections to be exact, but they are trend lines to follow for precious metals in the coming year.

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Where is Copper Heading in 2026?

COMEX copper futures have been in a bullish trend, making higher lows and higher highs since the low of 60.40 cents per pound in 2001. In 2025, the red nonferrous metal reached nearly $6 per ounce before correcting. However, the pattern of higher lows remained firmly intact.

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Can Silver Trade at $100 per ounce or Higher?

Silver’s parabolic rally continued in early December 2025, with the nearby COMEX futures price reaching over $59 per ounce. It took 4.5 decades, from 1980, for silver to return to over $50 per ounce, and over the past week, the precious metal blew through that price like a hot knife…

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Physical Metal Shortage Setting The Calendar For Silver Squeeze In 2026

The silver market might be setting up for a structural shock in 2026. A tightening physical supply colliding with a leveraged futures and derivatives market is a frightening prospect.

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COMEX 'Pulled the Plug'? Veteran Broker Warns Silver Shortages Are Global

Veteran London stockbroker Alasdair Macleod believes that a structural squeeze is underway in the silver market. The situation, he argues, is pushing the market toward a breaking point and could propel the precious metal much higher as reality sets in.

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Silver Stalled- Was the Recent Record High the Top?

Silver prices reached a new nominal record high on November 13, 2025, rising to $54.4150 per ounce. Silver rose above the 2011 and 1980 highs before correcting. Silver prices corrected to just above $49.115 per ounce and were back above the $50 level on November 20, which could signal that…

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Is Copper Setting a Base for a New High?

Copper is the leading base metal, with futures trading on the CME’s COMEX division, and flexible forward contracts on the London Metals Exchange. Copper prices have been volatile in 2025, but the bullish trend that began a quarter of a century ago continues as the red metal heads towards the…

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Commodity Roundup- October’s Top Performers and Underperformers

The dollar index and long-term bonds were higher in October, providing mixed signals for the commodities asset class. Gold and silver prices reached new record highs before correcting, as even the most aggressive bull markets rarely move in straight lines.

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Base Metals in Q3- Where are the Industrial Metals Heading in Q4 and Beyond?

The base metals of the commodities market moved higher in the third quarter, rising 2.87%. The base metals sector, which includes LME copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin three-month forwards, moved 7.43% higher over the first nine months of 2025, with significant volatility over the past months. Base metals…

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A Golden Quarter for Precious Metals- Can it Continue?

The precious metals sector of the commodities asset class led on the upside in 2025’s third quarter, as the composite of the four leading metals: gold, silver, platinum, and palladium posted a 20.32% gain. Over the first nine months of 2025, the sector was 55.92% higher than the level at…

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How High Can Silver Prices Rise?

Silver prices are on a path to challenge the 2011 and 1980 highs around the $50 per ounce level. If the price action in gold is a model, silver could be heading much higher than the 1980 high of $50.36 per ounce.

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Commodity Market Roundup- September’s Top Performers and Underperformers

Precious metals led the commodities asset class higher in September, while agricultural commodity prices declined and energy was mixed.

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7 Clues to Watch for Signs Gold and Silver Prices Are Running Out of Gas

Gold and silver may be entering the acceleration phases of their bull market runs this week.

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Will Copper Reach $5 by the End of 2025?

After a wild tariff-inspired ride in 2025, copper prices reached two all-time peaks and fell towards the $4 support level. At over $4.70 per pound in September, the odds of another test above the $5 level are high.

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3 Major Catalysts That Should Keep Precious Metals Prices Elevated as Gold Sets a New Record High

Gold reached a new record high and silver hit a 14-year high earlier this week. Here’s what could come next.

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Gold Rockets to Record Highs and Silver Takes Out 14-Year High: Where to From Here?

Here’s what’s driving the precious metals higher, and what could come next.

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Will Silver Trade To $50 in 2025?

Silver has been in a bullish trend since the 2020 pandemic-inspired low of $11.64. In early September 2025, silver prices are over three times higher, with the latest peak above $40 per ounce.

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Commodity Market Roundup-August’s Top Performers and Underperformers

A weaker dollar index and marginally higher long-term bond prices were primarily bullish factors for commodities in August. The September dollar index moved 2.06% lower, while the December U.S. 30-year Treasury bond futures rose only 0.52% to 114-07 at the end of August. However, the commodities asset class responded to…

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Gold futures rise after report Trump has placed tariffs on gold bars

The futures reached a record high on Friday after the US reportedly placed tariffs on imports of one-kilo gold bars.

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What Traders Can Learn from the Copper Price Crash

Nearby COMEX copper futures in late July rose to a new record high of $5.8950 a pound. Last week the bottom fell out of the red industrial metal’s futures market.

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Commodity Market Roundup- July’s Top Performers and Underperformers

Commodity prices turned in mixed results in July 2025. Lower liquidity during the summer could have contributed to extreme volatility in the copper market. A strong dollar and lower US government bond prices were not bullish for the commodities asset class.

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Divergence in Copper- Can LME Copper Catch Up with COMEX Copper?

The U.S. tariffs have caused COMEX copper prices to experience extreme price variance over the past months, leading to new record highs. Meanwhile, three-month LME copper forwards have not challenged their Q2 2024 all-time price peak. While the U.S. futures have been far more volatile than the U.K. forwards, fundamentals…

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The $5 Billion Copper Trap: How One ETF Got Burned By Trump's Surprise Tariff Move

Just when the copper code had been cracked by traders (or so they thought), President Donald Trump‘s tariff surprise slammed copper prices, and in turn copper ETFs, into a loss spiral, resulting in a path of losses, confusion, and a storage facility full of losing wagers.

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Freeport-McMoRan Copper And Gold Volumes Shine, CEO Touts China, India As Major Demand Driver

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX) reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Wednesday, driven by strong copper and gold sales volumes, lower costs, and favorable pricing. The company also marked a major operational milestone with the start-up of its new copper smelter in Indonesia.

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As Silver Scores a Nearly 14-Year High, New Records Could Be Just Around the Corner for Precious Metals

Gold and silver could both hit new record highs before the Labor Day holiday in the U.S.

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