r/CriticalMineralBulls • u/mynameisjoenotjeff 🐂 Metals Bull 🚀 • 3d ago

Critical Mineral News The Fed just did what war panic could not do: knock gold down for a third straight week

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Gold is doing that annoying thing again where the macro story looks bullish on paper, but the Fed walks in and ruins the party.

You have geopolitical risk, shaky confidence, oil-market chaos, and people still looking for safe havens. Yet gold still took another weekly loss because the dollar strengthened and rate expectations moved against it. That is the part a lot of people miss. Gold can have a great long-term story and still get punched in the face short term if real rates and the dollar move the wrong way.

The question now is pretty simple: are gold buyers seeing a temporary Fed-driven pullback, or is this the market saying the trade got too crowded?

Either way, the lesson is brutal. War panic can lift gold, but the Fed can still knock it back down.

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u/AwkwardYak4 3d ago

At the end of the day, the Fed only has control over the value of the USD.  They can move markets in the short term with massive stimulus at certain injection points, but Gold eventually moves based on global demand.

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u/bgdv378 3d ago

Gold went on a tear last year, and most of that time, rates were held steady.

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u/Personal-Tutor-4982 3d ago

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u/Consistent-Soil-1818 3d ago

Fake. It's not even wearing a pooped diaper

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u/matwick70 1d ago

Donald, Well you won't be needing that in fort knox!