Gold demand surges amid sovereign reserve changes as iron, copper, nickel, aluminum, zinc, and steel smelting halt worldwide

Infographic: Global gold demand;Global gold demand is being reshaped by shifting sovereign reserve strategies, changing investment behavior and an increasingly uncertain outlook. Infographic: Global gold demand https://t.co/KL9R4F1O48 — MINING.COM (@mining) February 5, 2026 https://www.mining.com/infographic-global-gold-demand/ Without metals and industrial elements — steel, copper, aluminum, iron ore, nickel, zinc, titanium, etc. — human civilization cannot exist. Nearly …

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Lithium and Nickel prices collapse as EV boom goes bust.

What was once celebrated as a transformative project for South Carolina’s electric vehicle (EV) industry has encountered a significant setback, signaling challenges for the broader EV sector. Albemarle, the world’s most valuable lithium company, had ambitious plans for a $1.3 billion lithium processing plant in South Carolina, designed to support the state’s growing EV industry. …

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Bidenomics, Born Under A Bad Sign! US Treasury Yield Curve (10Y-2Y) Inverts To Under -100 BPS Again (Nickel UP 1.78%, Dogecoin UP 5.58%)

by confoundedinterest17 I have never seen anything like this. The US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve is deep in inversion and has had a negative slope for 265 straight days. Bidenomics is born under a bad sign! On the commodities front, heating oil is up almost 2% this morning and nickel (an important element in Biden’s green …

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LONDON METAL EXCHANGES NICKEL STOCKPILE TURNS OUT THE BE A BAG OF ROCKS

by Chris Black A bag of rocks. My Sides! They should have gone with magic beans instead – so much funnier. UK is literally Charlie Brown. The London Metal Exchange finds bags of stones instead of the nickel that underpinned a handful of its contracts at a warehouse in Rotterdam https://t.co/xu9JD5tQ5H — Bloomberg (@business) March …

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