Gold, silver surge after record drop flashes technical signal
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-04 06:55
Gold bugs and silver bulls had a lot to cheer about this year... until last week. The surprise decision by President Donald Trump to nominate inflation hawk Kevin Warsh as the next Fed Chairman sparked a rally in the U.S. Dollar, putting the kibosh on the gold and silver rally. The drop was so bad that silver's decline was the worst since 1980, when the Hunt brothers' attempt to corner the silver market was derailed by a ratcheting of margin requirements higher (sound familiar?), Blondie's "Call Me" was to ...