You might recall the news that China had paused her gold bullion reserve buying in early June of this year, and the $100 oz intraday sell off that proceeded. The spot gold price has climbed since regardless.
China also made news this week as the nation's Politburo planners announced a vow to ramp up stimulus to spur growth in 2025. Experts are expecting the fiat Chinese yuan to be devalued accordingly to any news tariffs the Trump regime potentially slaps on Chinese imports.
Later in this week's SD Bullion update we will go into details this week about how potential coming Chinese tariffs are creating chaos in the silver and gold price discovery markets.
But first, the OMFIF or Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum published a 24-page report this week entitled "Gold And The New Disorder":
https://pdf.omfif.org/gold-and-the-ne...
The most important point made in the report revolves around a coming Short Squeeze in the world's physical bullion market.
Citing recent history in the Palladium market in the late 2010s, where palladium shorts experienced massive losses as the spot price ran six fold trough to peak over a five to six-year timeframe.
The estimation was that unallocated to allocated gold ratios could be as high as 100 unbacked derivatives to 1 oz bullion backing, with suspicions rising that some BRICS countries could be considering 'weaponizing' gold against the West. Our fiat financialized markets could be in for a bumpy ride.
The silver and gold spot prices were mixed this week as gold outperformed silver overall.
The spot silver price climbed to over $32 oz intra-week only to be cut down to close at $30.56 oz bid.
The spot gold price closed flat after a short climb to $2,730 oz bid high intra-week, yet closed down at $2,650 oz bid.
The spot gold-silver ratio climbed on gold's relative strength to close at 86.
That will be all for our weekly SD Bullion Market Update.