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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The typical story of retail investors joining market rallies at their fag end might be playing out in gold, with its exchange traded funds (ETFs) recording a late gush of inflows. In January, these reached ₹24,040 crore, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India, up several fold from ₹3,742 crore as recently as in November.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chill winds have been battering America’s eastern seaboard for weeks, driving temperatures in places to their lowest in decades. But that has nothing on the deep freeze into which investors have shoved crypto assets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mutual funds and commodity exchanges are exploring whether exchange traded funds (ETFs) can be expanded beyond gold and silver. Current regulations limit ETFs to these two precious metals, but discussions are now underway between the two sides regarding other commodities, especially copper, according to three people aware of the matter.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence may still be in its infancy, but this mainstay of the stock market rally now has investors worried it will be its downfall. Investors suddenly see numerous areas of tech and other sectors are vulnerable to AI and its big funding needs, leading them to look elsewhere.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a blistering rally over the past year, gold and silver prices are beginning to see sharp corrections. Gold ETFs have fallen over 12% since 29 January, and silver ETFs have slumped over 24% as of 4 February.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a blistering rally over the past year, gold prices are starting to see sharp corrections. Since touching its all-time high on 28 January, gold has fallen 12.2% to $4,923.88 per troy ounce (as of 1.18 pm IST on 3 February).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The record-breaking rally in metals prices that has captivated investors from Wall Street to Main Street hit the wall on Friday, when silver and gold prices suffered their largest daily losses in more than four decades. Silver futures, which surged past a 45-year-old record high in October and more than doubled from there, crashed 31% on Friday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Global demand for gold is expected to remain strong this year, driven by lower interest rates, uncertainty in bond markets and persistent geopolitical risks, the World Gold Council said after bullion crossed the $5,000 mark for the first time. “Gold’s appeal as an all-weather hedge relative to fixed income should continue to attract material investor demand into 2026, and possibly beyond," the trade group said Thursday in its quarterly report.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BAD NEWS is good news for the price of gold. These days good news is good news, too.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. To quote Yogi Berra, it’s déjà vu all over again. Fears about tariffs are now roiling the stock market, just as they did early in 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Even as silver surged to a record high of $93.22, or ₹9,412, an ounce (31.10 grams) in overseas markets, the Indian physical market saw the white metal trading at a discount of ₹10,000 per kg to the landed cost, as demand slowed at historic price levels, trade participants said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin is beginning to look less like a trade and more like an upward trend—one that investors should get in on. After a six-months-long stretch defined by skepticism and false starts for the crypto, there are multiple signals that a durable recovery is under way.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When you crack open several funds that sound the same, you can find very different investments inside. That’s one of the most subtle, but important, lessons of 2025.

₹70 to a dollar. Today, it’s significantly higher.

The key is not prediction, but preparation, Gupta told Mint in an interview. “That’s why you hold gold or silver allocations: not to time them, but because you can’t.”The biggest risk remains macro concerns, she said, adding that trade deals, both for India and globally, are critical.If they don’t materialise, the environment could turn inflationary, something already visible in early signs from the US,” she said. “If India’s trade deal isn’t concluded by March, conditions could get tougher.”Another key risk is a lack of earnings revival, Gupta pointed out.

After a two-year run of stellar gains, US traders are signalling far more modest returns for gold and silver in 2026, possibly driven by lower central bank purchases, a stronger dollar, and moderating safe-haven demand, according to experts.Analysts and financial planners are warning domestic investors to brace for bouts of volatility next year, with corrections in silver likely to be sharper, even though expectations could shift with changes in global macro conditions—such as interest rate moves or rising economic uncertainty.Trader bets on Comex, the world's most diverse derivatives marketplace, show they expect the most liquid gold futures contractto rise 3.4% and silver 3% by December 2026 from Wednesday’s (24 December’s) closing of $4,503 and $71.68 per troy ounce (31.10 gm), respectively, per Bloomberg data.In 2025, Comex generic gold and silver futures rose 67.8% and 127%, respectively, from 1 January to 24 December, the data showed.Indian gold and silver prices tend to mirror international prices as most domestic demand for both metals is met through imports.Even as the Nifty 50 gave 12% returns in the current fiscal year (FY26) through 19 December, gold ETF (exchange-traded funds) prices surged 45% to ₹11,400 per gm while silver doubled to ₹200 per gm in the same period, based on the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi’s) formula for ETFs using global benchmark London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) prices, excluding GST.In the previous fiscal, gold and silver ETFs gave 35% returns, while the Nifty returned just 5%.Sensing the warning signs, analysts and financial planners have called for caution, especially as Indian investors continue to diversify portfolios through gold and silver ETFs.Amol

several new records in both nominal and inflation-adjusted terms. Silver has also soared, sweeping up legions of amateur investors, ranging from newly committed collectors to Reddit-inspired speculators trading in and out of exchange-traded funds that offer exposure to silver without having to store it.Silver futures have climbed 145% this year to around $71 a troy ounce, blowing through a 45-year record in October and only picking up steam from there.

hard-to-obtain contracts for electrical power—all of which can be repurposed to train and power AI models.It’s not a seamless process. Miners often have to build new, specialized facilities, because running AI requires more-advanced cooling and network systems, as well as replacing bitcoin-mining computers with AI-focused graphics processing units.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Almost every corner of the power sector has rallied this year. Can that winning streak continue? The list of power-sector winners is long.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin is mired in a slump. That weakness is showing up in tepid 2026 price forecasts.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The extraordinary rally in US technology stocks over the past few years, especially those linked to artificial intelligence, has left investors wondering whether they are witnessing the formation of another classic market bubble. For Indian investors, the concern is sharper because most international exposure from the country is concentrated overwhelmingly in US equities, particularly Nasdaq-heavy funds.