Central Banks Are Hoarding Gold Again. China Is Leading.
China’s central bank just made its largest gold purchase in a year. Here’s why central banks worldwide are stockpiling bullion and what it signals for markets.
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India Just Bought Iranian Oil. Sanctions Just Got Complicated.
For the first time since 2019, India is purchasing Iranian crude — a move that reveals the fraying limits of US sanctions leverage, signals a geopolitical rebalancing, and has real implications for oil prices, tanker stocks, and the dollar.