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Week InReview: December 26, 2025

Year-end rally for precious metals.

Gold, silver, and platinum jumped to all-time highs, extending a historic end-of-year rally for precious metals, supported by escalating geopolitical tensions and dollar weakness. | Global stocks are set for a seventh day of gains in thin trading. The US market reopens after Christmas with futures little changed and the S&P 500 at an all-time high. Markets in Australia, Hong Kong, and across Europe were shut for holidays. | Oil is heading for its biggest weekly gain since late October, as traders tracked a partial US blockade of crude shipments from Venezuela and the military strike in Nigeria.
 

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