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Completed

Started At

September 05, 2026 at 01:17 AM

Completed At

September 05, 2026 at 01:18 AM

Duration

2 minutes

Headline

Dutch Pull Gold & Cut US Bond Bids

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  "title": "Dutch Pull Gold & Cut US Bond Bids",
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  "channel": {
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    "handle": "sdbullion",
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    "risks": [
      "Political risk of storing reserves in a country whose government can freeze foreign assets.",
      "Higher gold prices could be a headwind for physical demand.",
      "Slowing industrial demand for silver due to easing growth."
    ],
    "topics": [
      "Gold",
      "Silver",
      "US Treasuries",
      "Central Banks",
      "Sovereign Wealth Funds",
      "Geopolitics",
      "Inflation",
      "Debt Sustainability",
      "Fiat Currency",
      "De-dollarization",
      "Economic Growth",
      "Bitcoin",
      "Palladium",
      "Platinum"
    ],
    "summary": "The video highlights a significant global shift in central bank asset allocation, with nations like the Netherlands repatriating gold reserves from the US and Norway's sovereign wealth fund cutting US Treasury holdings due to geopolitical risks and concerns about US debt sustainability. This trend is framed as a broader distrust in fiat currencies and a move towards gold as a diversifier. UBS strategist Joni Teves reinforces a constructive outlook on gold, projecting a $5,000 target by 2026/2027, driven by investor diversification and macro uncertainty, while also noting silver's potential to outperform gold.",
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      {
        "name": "Norway",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation making news on gold market related fronts."
      },
      {
        "name": "Dutch Central Bank",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Moved 86 metric tons of gold from the New York Fed to Canada and London. Preparing for extreme crisis."
      },
      {
        "name": "New York Fed",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Location where Dutch gold reserves were previously held."
      },
      {
        "name": "Canada",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "New storage location for Dutch gold reserves."
      },
      {
        "name": "London",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "New storage location for Dutch gold reserves."
      },
      {
        "name": "Netherlands",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation that redistributed gold reserves."
      },
      {
        "name": "France",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation that pulled gold reserves off US shores. Sold bullion held in US and bought in Paris."
      },
      {
        "name": "Germany",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation that pulled gold reserves off US shores. Faced calls to bring home reserves."
      },
      {
        "name": "US",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Location from which foreign gold reserves are being pulled. Government can freeze foreign assets."
      },
      {
        "name": "Washington",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "US government, has frozen foreign assets of Russia, Afghanistan, Venezuela."
      },
      {
        "name": "Russia",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation whose assets were frozen by Washington."
      },
      {
        "name": "Afghanistan",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Nation whose assets were frozen by Washington."
      },
      {
        "name": "Venezuela",
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        "context": "Nation whose assets were frozen by Washington."
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      {
        "name": "DNB",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Dutch Central Bank, moved gold from North America to UK."
      },
      {
        "name": "Olaf Sleijpen",
        "type": "person",
        "context": "DNB President, cited strengthening resilience and preparedness."
      },
      {
        "name": "Bank of England",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Destination for Dutch gold transfers."
      },
      {
        "name": "Dutch finance minister",
        "type": "person",
        "context": "Stated gold transfer was a matter of vital public interest."
      },
      {
        "name": "Italy",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Faced renewed calls to bring home reserves stored in New York."
      },
      {
        "name": "Gold",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Central banks are piling into it, being repatriated, price targets."
      },
      {
        "name": "US 10-year bond",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Benchmark rate rising, threatening 5% yield line."
      },
      {
        "name": "Iran",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Conflict with US is causing US 10-year bond rate to rise."
      },
      {
        "name": "Norges Bank Investment Management",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Norway's sovereign wealth fund, plans to cut US Treasury holdings."
      },
      {
        "name": "US 30-year bond",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Worst performance in 20 years."
      },
      {
        "name": "Luke Groman",
        "type": "person",
        "context": "Pointed out countries defaulting on debt via inflation."
      },
      {
        "name": "Japan",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Trying to inflate its debt away. Central bank owns over 52% of JGBs."
      },
      {
        "name": "Bank of Japan (BOJ)",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Owns over 52% of JGBs, forced to buy 10-year bonds to anchor yields."
      },
      {
        "name": "Yield Curve Control (YCC)",
        "type": "concept",
        "context": "BOJ's aggressive policy to anchor yields."
      },
      {
        "name": "Silver",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Price closed flat, potential to outperform gold."
      },
      {
        "name": "Gallup poll",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Survey on perceived corruption in US government."
      },
      {
        "name": "US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Jobs report likely adjusted for political reasons."
      },
      {
        "name": "Donald J. Trump",
        "type": "person",
        "context": "Demanded Fed slash rates or he'll end trade with countries with US surpluses."
      },
      {
        "name": "Congressional Budget Office (CBO)",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Projects rising interest payments on national debt."
      },
      {
        "name": "Fiat currency",
        "type": "concept",
        "context": "Global supply surpassing $150 trillion, governments creating more."
      },
      {
        "name": "S&P 500",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "US stock index, ratio to gold discussed."
      },
      {
        "name": "UBS Investment Bank",
        "type": "organization",
        "context": "Maintains a constructive view on gold prices."
      },
      {
        "name": "Joni Teves",
        "type": "person",
        "context": "Precious Metals Strategist at UBS Investment Bank."
      },
      {
        "name": "China",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Central bank continues to buy gold."
      },
      {
        "name": "India",
        "type": "region",
        "context": "Seasonally strong period for physical gold demand. Prime Minister Modi urged cutting demand."
      },
      {
        "name": "Bitcoin",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Gold has underperformed it."
      },
      {
        "name": "Palladium",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Price movements tied to gold and investor sentiment."
      },
      {
        "name": "Platinum",
        "type": "commodity",
        "context": "Price movements tied to gold and investor sentiment."
      }
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    "confidence": 1.0,
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        "point": "The Dutch Central Bank moved 86 metric tons ($11 billion) of gold from the New York Fed to Canada and London, citing geopolitical unrest.",
        "timestamp": "00:08",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "The percentage of foreign gold reserves held on US shores has shrunk from 29% in 2006 to 4.2% in 2026.",
        "timestamp": "00:48",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "The Dutch Central Bank is preparing for an extreme crisis, strengthening its resilience and preparedness.",
        "timestamp": "00:53",
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      {
        "point": "Storing gold reserves in a country whose government can freeze foreign assets (like Washington has done to Russia, Afghanistan, Venezuela) is seen as a vulnerability by many European nations.",
        "timestamp": "01:14",
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        "point": "Between March and August, the Dutch central bank secretly transferred 86 metric tons of gold from vaults in the US and Canada to the Bank of England.",
        "timestamp": "01:37",
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      },
      {
        "point": "France recently sold its remaining US-held bullion and bought gold in Paris, citing technical reasons.",
        "timestamp": "02:13",
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      },
      {
        "point": "Germany and Italy have also faced calls to repatriate gold from New York.",
        "timestamp": "02:23",
        "importance": "low"
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      {
        "point": "Central banks are increasingly piling into gold, with 45% planning to increase reserves over the next year.",
        "timestamp": "02:28",
        "importance": "high"
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      {
        "point": "The US 10-year Treasury yield has been steadily rising since the Iran conflict began, now threatening the 5% yield line.",
        "timestamp": "02:45",
        "importance": "high"
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      {
        "point": "Norway's sovereign wealth fund plans to cut US Treasury holdings by $80 billion, reducing allocations from 34.1% to 21.9%.",
        "timestamp": "03:03",
        "importance": "high"
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      {
        "point": "The US 30-year bond is experiencing its worst stretch since 2006, with yields hitting 5.34% in mid-August.",
        "timestamp": "03:23",
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        "point": "Global central banks are cutting back on US Treasuries, while gold allocations grow.",
        "timestamp": "03:28",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "98% of countries that hit 130% debt/GDP (like the US in 2020) have defaulted on their debt, mainly via higher inflation.",
        "timestamp": "03:42",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "Japan's central bank owns over 52% of all Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs), historically surging to 70% of the 10-year bond market due to Yield Curve Control.",
        "timestamp": "03:59",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "The bond market is looking at a secular bear for likely a decade or more.",
        "timestamp": "07:24",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "Global broad fiat currency supply surpassed $150 trillion in June 2026.",
        "timestamp": "06:58",
        "importance": "high"
      },
      {
        "point": "Indebted governments are likely to create more currency (inflation) to bail themselves out of promised piles they cannot pay for.",
        "timestamp": "07:10",
        "importance": "high"
      },
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        "point": "The spot gold price still needs to more than double to reach levels seen in the late 1970s and early 1980s relative to fiat currency outstanding.",
        "timestamp": "07:34",
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      },
      {
        "point": "The S&P 500/Gold ratio is currently at 1.74, and the speaker expects a further rollover towards parity (1:1) and then lower.",
        "timestamp": "07:51",
        "importance": "medium"
      },
      {
        "point": "UBS strategist Joni Teves expects gold prices to be headed higher, with a 2026 target of $5,000.",
        "timestamp": "09:14",
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        "point": "Key drivers for gold include investor diversification, hedging against fiscal and debt sustainability concerns, and broader macro uncertainty.",
        "timestamp": "09:20",
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        "point": "Central bank gold purchases slowed at the beginning of the year but stepped up in Q2 as prices came off, indicating continued buying programs.",
        "timestamp": "10:32",
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        "point": "China has continued to buy gold, with a notable increase in volume at lower price levels.",
        "timestamp": "10:58",
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        "point": "The biggest headwind for physical gold demand is currently higher gold prices.",
        "timestamp": "11:47",
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        "point": "Gold prices are expected to stay within the $4,000-$5,000 range over the next year, with a 2027 year-end target of $5,000.",
        "timestamp": "12:28",
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        "point": "Risks to the gold forecast are increasingly skewed to the upside, especially if fiscal concerns become more ingrained, leading to \"de-fiatization.\"",
        "timestamp": "12:40",
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        "point": "Gold acts as an alternative to fiat currencies, a long-term theme that underpins investor demand.",
        "timestamp": "13:27",
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        "point": "Silver has the potential to outperform gold into year-end, due to its high beta to gold and supportive supply/demand fundamentals.",
        "timestamp": "14:37",
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        "point": "UBS's 2026 silver target is $90.",
        "timestamp": "14:48",
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        "point": "Industrial demand for silver could be hit by easing growth, but long-term trends like AI and vehicle electrification underpin demand.",
        "timestamp": "15:15",
        "importance": "medium"
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        "point": "Palladium and platinum price movements are more tied to gold and investor sentiment rather than significant changes in their own fundamentals.",
        "timestamp": "15:54",
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        "source": "Luke Groman"
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        "source": "James Henry Anderson"
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  "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syh1__Z6-f4",
  "transcript": "The nation of Norway made news this week on two major gold market related fronts. First was the news that their central bank had completed the move of 86 metric tons of gold once held at the New York Fed, moved to other storage locations such as Canada and London. In other words, the Dutch recently redistributed about 6,880 of these 400 oz gold bars away from the USA. They are the fourth on this list of other nations who have pulled some official gold reserves off US shores in recent years. What's most striking about the chart on the right is the red line's gigantic drawdown from its 2006 high to now 2026 low levels. The percentage of foreign gold reserves held on US shores has apparently shrunken from 29% in 2006 to now just only 4.2%. The Dutch Central Bank has been preparing for an extreme crisis with its current president citing it is necessary that they strengthen their resilience and preparedness. The left-hand side shows that Netherlands gold reserve location allocation before and the right-hand side shows after the 86 ton transfers. The biggest argument for doing so is simply political risk. Storing gold reserves in a country whose government can and seemingly increasingly does, freeze foreign assets, as Washington has done to Russia, Afghanistan and Venezuela, now reads to many foreign nations as a vulnerability rather than a safe place to store bedrock sovereign bullion savings. Here was Bloomberg on the story. The Netherlands has revealed it moved tons of gold worth billions of dollars from North America to London. Here's why. Between March and August, the Dutch central bank secretly transferred about 86 metric tons of gold from vaults in the US and Canada. The destination: the Bank of England. About 27 tons of gold was physically moved from North America to the Netherlands, with a similar quantity then transferred to London. The remaining 59 tons were moved by selling in New York and buying the equivalent in the UK. The complex plan wasn't made public until it was completed because it was a matter of vital public interest, according to the Dutch finance minister. But geopolitical tensions are putting a new focus on where countries keep their reserves. France recently sold its remaining bullion held in the US and bought gold in Paris. Although the French central bank says the move was more for technical reasons rather than geopolitical. Germany and Italy have also faced renewed calls to bring home reserves stored in New York. And the debate matters more as central banks pile into gold. A record 45% say they plan to increase their reserves over the next year. So the gold rush isn't just about how much countries own anymore. It's increasingly about where they want to keep it. The benchmark US 10-year bond rate has been steadily rising since the Iran conflict got underway about a half year ago. It's now threatening the 5% yield line. Interest rates that high are not enticing the Dutch who made probably the biggest news this week in the financial world, as their world-leading sovereign wealth fund announced it will be drawing down US debt allocations, looking for better alternatives to invest in elsewhere. They're cutting 80 billion in US debt buying, drawing down their US debt holdings from just over a third to now 1/5th of their total fund's government bond holdings portfolio. The US 30-year bond with some of its worst performance in 20 years. It's not just the Dutch, it's the world at large cutting back on US Treasuries while gold allocations grow larger in overall size within central bank reserves for instance. Luke Groman pointed out that 98% of countries that have hit the 130% debt to GDP level over the last 150 years, as he states the US hit that level in 2020, well, they've defaulted on their debt loads by higher inflation. Japan was the loan counterpoint, but now they're trying to inflate their debt away too. One glance at the Japanese 10-year bond chart this week and a novice onlooker would unlikely also know that Japan's central bank has already been forced to own over 52% of all Japanese government bonds outstanding. With that central bank owning up to 70% of their entire 10-year bond market driven by years of aggressive Yield Curve Controls (YCC), during which the BOJ stood ready to buy 10-year bonds to anchor yields in a now failing attempt to anchor sharply rising yields there as well. And so onward we go in the bullion over bonds trade. We're not only owning bullion in the correct jurisdictions increasingly matters, but an increasing distrust of owning fiat currency laced bond promise piles is growing as the world's largest sovereign wealth fund showed by her very actions this week. We'll be right back with further silver and gold forecasts for the remainder of this year and a look at the growing debt and interest payment quagmire the USA faces. The silver and gold markets got algo sold to start trading this Friday morning as bloated US jobs report painted the tapes. The spot silver price closed the week flat at $66.22 an ounce bid. The spot gold price finished the week down lightly at $4,430 an ounce bid. The spot gold silver ratio in the week basically flat at 67. A new Gallup poll suggests nine out of ten US citizens think corruption is now widespread throughout their government. So, it's no surprise that in order to help their chances for the Republicans coming elections, the BLS likely adjusted their latest jobs report to look as if the US job market is going gangbusters, hiring robustly on net. After this morning's spot price jobs report smash, President Trump went on a running rant demanding the US slash rates or he'll end trade with countries with US surpluses. With gigantic sums of debt outstanding needing to be rolled over and persistently high interest rates relative to our recent ZIRP and real NIRP past. The President and the Congressional Budget Office have interest rate payment projections that will make all our heads spin and further collapse in confidence. Each point in interest in this country that we pay costs us 650 billion dollars. We should be at 1% or a half a percent. We shouldn't be at 4%. We have other countries that are half a percent and yet if it weren't for us, they'd be bankrupt countries. This global broad fiat currency supply chart made the rounds this week as 150 trillion in reported fiat currency supplies are now outstanding worldwide. Well, low to no chance this fiat currency growth trend stops as indebted governments are most likely going to create more, not less currency in time to bail themselves out of promised piles they cannot pay for in real terms. And that's partly why the Dutch sovereign wealth fund took affirmation action this week. The bond market is looking at a secular bear for likely decade plus to come. In a world increasingly looking to get away from fiat currency counterparty risks, it's worth noting that the current spot gold price still needs to more than double in order to reach % levels seen in the late 1970s and early 1980s in terms of fiat currency outstanding. The bottom half of that chart shows you the rhyming phenomenon underway. In terms of the US stock bubble divided by gold, we are at about 1.74 ounces of gold to buy the nominal S&P 500 index. Ultimately, I'm looking for a further rollover from here. Still, we are currently higher than the 1929 peak with this key ratio. I'm thinking we're headed back towards parity, one to one, and then ultimately back towards lower levels reached in 2011 and even lower like the later 1970s and early 1980s. The ability for gold bullion holders to buy five times the amount of US stocks later in this bullion bull market mania is simply history rhyming in time and it's something that is very real. Let's check in on further de-fiatization to come with gold and silver price forecasts this year's end with UBS's Joni Teves. Our next guest maintains the view that gold prices are headed higher. Joni Teves, Precious Metals Strategist at UBS Investment Bank is with us. Joni, good to have you with us. You've got to wonder where we are in this gold rally. So, I think right now gold is caught between messages from the Fed and expectations on Fed rate hikes or whether they're going to hold or not, and also messages from the US Treasury, rising concerns about fiscal and debt sustainability. So, I think that's why gold has been quite volatile over the past month. But going forward, you're expecting gold to edge higher. In fact, you have a target of 5,000. What will drive that? What catalysts are you expecting? So, the underlying factors that we think have driven gold higher over the past few years, we think are still very much intact. So, it's really about investor diversification and wanting to have gold as part of the portfolio to hedge against all the risks that investors are currently facing, particularly, um, you know, increasing concerns about fiscal and debt sustainability, um, and just the broader macro uncertainty. The thing is, gold has always been a diversifier. Are they holding much more than before in the portfolio? There has been a broadening of gold's investor base, and I think that's why the rally has been, um, you know, quite, quite substantial in the past few years. Um, so more investors, previously that really weren't looking at the gold market, um, are now wanting to have that allocation. A prolonged Iran war. That's bad news for gold. Not necessarily. So, the geopolitical risks, the impact on gold tend to be short-lived in terms of the direct price impact. Ultimately, it matters as to how the the conflict impacts inflation, impacts growth, and therefore monetary and fiscal policy to an extent. When it comes to demand, it's usually supported very much by central bank buying. Have they been buying even more now? So, there has been initially been a slowdown in central bank purchases at the beginning of the year, but as gold prices came off in the second quarter, there was actually a step up in the volume of purchases. So, that suggests that the buying programs are still in place, and central banks continue to take advantage of lower prices or more stable prices to build those, um, those gold reserves. Is there clarity which central banks in particular are buying more? So, the the China has continued to buy, and in fact, um, there was a notable increase in in the volume of purchases in China at the lower levels of gold price. So, I think that's a very encouraging signal to the market and helped, um, basically improve confidence among investors, especially after concerns earlier this year that some central banks may have to start selling their gold reserves. And when it comes to physical demand, it's also about India, because, uh, gold is India's biggest export after oil, and we had Prime Minister Modi recently telling the, uh, you know, the Indians that they should cut down on the demand and the purchases of gold. Might that impact gold demand? So, we are heading into a seasonally strong period for physical demand, kicking off with India late in Q3 into Q4, and then followed by China later in the year. Um, I think the biggest headwind for physical demand right now has really been the higher gold prices. Um, so, you know, even though there has been volatility in the price this year, ultimately, levels are still higher for domestic consumers in these big markets. So, that has been the biggest headwind, volumes have been under pressure. But our view is that as we head into the typically, uh, stronger season, um, there is more fundamental for, uh, fundamental support for gold between now and the end of the year. Um, so we do expect that seasonal uptick in demand, although volumes will probably remain, uh, constrained given, given the higher prices. You talked about how gold prices could get to 5,000 by the end of the year. What's the projection for 2027? Is that sustainable? So, our core view is that gold will stay within the range 4,000 to 5,000 over the next, um, over the next year or so. Um, so we also have a year-end target for 2027 of 5,000. Um, but we think that the risks to that are increasingly skewed to the upside, particularly if there, the these fiscal concerns become much more ingrained, debasement, de-dollarization, in our view, it's more really de-fiatization. Um, if these become more entrenched and encourage more investors to hold gold in higher allocations of gold, uh, despite higher real rate environments, um, then we think that there could be upside risk to that, to that forecast. You touched on debasement trade, but there's actually a debate on whether that is, um, happening or not. I mean, if we don't see that debasement trade, what does, what happens to gold? So, it's really, uh, we think that, you know, it's, uh, you know, people talk about debasement, de-dollarization. In our perspective, it's really more about de-fiatization. So, gold acting as an alternative currency or an alternative to fiat currencies. Um, so I think these are long-term themes that don't really go away. They move, um, you know, front and center certain periods, and then they kind of move to the background certain periods. But ultimately, we think that this underpins investor demand for gold as a diversifier for portfolios. And we talk about alternative, diversifying, gold has underperformed Bitcoin. And that is likely to, to, to be maintained going forward, you think? So, it's, it's very tricky because ultimately, I think, uh, the drivers of Bitcoin prices are still sort of, um, not really as clearly defined in, in a way. Sometimes it acts as a, as a risk asset, very, very speculative. Um, so, and I think a lot of the more, uh, recent, uh, price action in Bitcoin has also been down to, um, I guess the, the positioning heading into, heading into the move. Um, so I think for, for gold, it's really more about more strategic, uh, allocations that is going to continue to drive, to drive gold prices. And of course, uh, the gold rally has spilled over into, you know, the likes of silver. Do you see silver outperforming gold at some point? Um, yes, so we, we think silver does have the potential to outperform gold, and in fact, uh, we expect in terms of relative performance into year-end that silver will outperform gold. Um, in addition to its very high beta to, to gold prices, um, we think that the supply and demand fundamentals for silver are also supportive. So, it does help provide that more, um, stronger base for the silver price. There's still a question mark on growth, and there are expectations that growth may just ease. Wouldn't that hit the, uh, the price for silver? And the demand for silver? Yes, so I think on the, it, it, particularly hits demand for silver from an industrial side to the extent that, um, industrial demand slows down. However, um, what does help silver is that it is exposed to kind of these longer-term trends like AI, um, you know, the electrification of vehicles. Um, so that does underpin, um, demand for silver over the long run. That in itself is not enough to push silver prices one way or the other, um, but it does provide stronger support in our view. And linked to that, palladium and platinum? Palladium and platinum, I think, are a bit quieter. There hasn't been any significant change in fundamentals, um, recently. So, any price movements in these metals, uh, you know, over the past, uh, few months, I think has been much more tied to gold and kind of investors, um, kind of going down the rest of the precious metal space and expressing a view there.",
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