Weekly Wrap 13/06/2025 - Oil up 11%, Gold up 3.42% & a hammer candle for Platinum?
Geopolitics is the topic of the week. Israel + Iran attacking each other sees oil up, gold up, silver up and platinum up - albeit with a warning sign! Plenty going on.
Welcome to the Weekly Wrap!
Summary of the markets this week
Gold = UP $120.72 (3.65%)
Silver = UP $0.33 (0.94%)
Platinum = UP $56.72 (4.86%)
Palladium = DOWN -$7.31 (-0.70%)
Uranium U308 Futures = DOWN -$0.65 (-0.92%)
Brent Crude = UP $7.30 (11.02%)
Dow Jones = DOWN -565.08 points (-1.32%)
Nasdaq = DOWN -170.36 points (-0.60%)
S & P 500 = DOWN -23.41 points (-0.39%)
CC’s News from the week (audio + article links)
NB - After recording Iran has decided to strike back at Israel.
How the Israel-Iran conflict could affect energy prices
Gold up, Platinum short squeeze over?
Podcasts & Posts
NB - You can view the various posts and podcasts by clicking on the hyperlinks.
This week’s written posts included a 2-part Q&A about all things silver, gold, bitcoin, solar, nuclear and other political matters.
Q&A Part 1 - The Silver Bull Thesis
Q&A Part 2 - Gold, Bitcoin, Silver, Solar and Nuclear
There was also a 10 market terms made simple this week. The Layman’s articles are proving to be quite popular so I will continue to do them moving forwards.
The podcast with Kai Hoffmann went live to the general public on Monday 9th June.
The other podcast this week was with the excellent
of (recorded on Wednesday 9th June 2025) where Don deep dived into all thing’s gold, silver and miners. Don will be back on the podcast in September 2025.Don Durrett - $5,000 gold & $100 silver likely in the next 3-4 years (GSR of 1:50)
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Charts + Commentaries
BRENT CRUDE
We’ll start this week with Brent Crude. it finished the week up $7.30 (11.02%).
It was not a surprise to see a massive increase in price on the back of everything that unfolded late Thursday 12th and throughout Friday 13th June. A lot will likely happen over the weekend as well.
Brent Crude is still about 10% lower than it was this time last year.
When Russia/Ukraine kicked off in 2022, oil shot up to $130. The same could happen this time. JP Morgan certainly seems to think so.
Dr
will be appearing on the podcast next week. An expert on Oil and someone that really understands the dynamics of the Middle East. It will be a podcast episode not to be missed.1 minute, 1 hour and Weekly charts (in that order) are below.
GOLD
Gold soared on the news that Israel had struck Iran and then maintained its position throughout Friday. It reacted exactly how it should do in such a situation. The DXY going down also played a part in the increase in gold this week. It finished the week at a new all-time weekly high (spot) of $3,429.97 (up 3.65% on the week)
Now onto Silver, Platinum, Palladium, the various metals ratios, Copper, Nat Gas and more…….
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