Gold Outlook 2026

A summary of the most important gold news and analysis of the last week.

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Gold news

This week’s summary of gold news and analysis.

• Gold Outlook 2026: Push ahead or pull back [World Gold Council]

• Central banks bought net 53 tonnes of gold in October for the strongest month of 2025 – WGC’s Gopaul [Kitco]

• Why the “gold bull market” has only just begun [Kitco]

• Visualizing the world’s total supply of gold [Visual Capitalist]

🔮 Gold price forecasts

• Gold up to $4,400, silver down to mid-$40s, but PGMs will lead the pack in 2026 – TD Securities [Kitco]

• Goldman Sachs polled institutional investors on gold, and found many expect it to hit $5K next year [CNBC]

• Gold to $5,000? What Bank of America and UBS Have to Say [MarketBeat]

• Gold Price Forecast – Fed pivot and weak data set stage for a rally toward $6,000 in 2026 [FXEmpire]

• Gold at $10,000, a quantum-driven crypto collapse and costly AI scandals are among these ‘outrageous’ bets for 2026 [MarketWatch]

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🌐 World gold news

Gold news from a global perspective.

🇦🇺 Australia

• WA miners build up massive gold stockpiles at Perth Mint amid record prices [ABC]

🇰🇭 Cambodia

• Cambodia advances Memot project with estimated 26 tonnes of gold [The Phnom Penh Post]

🇨🇳 China

• Kering bets on China’s gold jewelry boom as Laopu’s sales soar (archive) [Bloomberg]

• China’s rich step up offshore bets as gold and insurance gain favour [SCMP]

• From fisheries clerk to jewelry billionaire: How Xu Gaoming built $11B fortune with China’s ‘Hermès of gold’ [VnExpress]

🇮🇳 India

• SGB returns: RBI confirms final payout for 2017 gold bond series; long-term holders gain over 340% [Times of India]

🇮🇷 Iran

• Iran announces discovery of major gold deposit [The New Arab]

🇮🇶 Iraq

• Iraq raises its gold reserves by 8 tons in 2025 [Iraqi News]

🇮🇹 Italy

• Meloni’s party pushes to declare Italy’s gold ‘property of the people’ (archive) [Financial Times]

"Country’s central bank says it owns the reserves to ‘boost."

• ECB urges Italy to reconsider proposal on central bank's $300 billion gold [Reuters]

🇳🇿 New Zealand

• Indian community shuns jewellery for bullion as gold prices soar [RNZ]

🇷🇺 Russia

• Russia’s central bank forced to sell gold reserves to cover budget, support ruble [Kitco]

🇿🇦 South Africa

• South Africa’s first underground gold mine in 15 years opens west of the City of Gold [Mining Weekly]

🇹🇭 Thailand

• Gold traders must report daily trades [Bangkok Post]

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

• Emirates Gold and Public Gold launch the world’s first fintech-enabled gold ATM in the UAE [Khaleej Times]

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan among top global gold buyers in October [Caspian Post]

🇻🇳 Vietnam

• Finance Ministry explains proposed tax threshold on gold bar transactions [VietNamNet Global]

Gold-backed cryptocurrency

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• Billionaire warns largest private gold holder could be insolvent [The Street]

"Billionaire and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sparked a fresh round of scrutiny around Tether (USDT)."

• VCI Global subsidiary awarded $200 million gold-backed stablecoin mandate [Investing]

• Could tokenized gold become the next standard in stablecoins? [BeInCrypto]

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