Gold and silver open the new year with advancesBloombergGold and silver advanced as trading began in the new year, building on their best annual performances since 1979. Bullion rose to US$4,375 an ounce, while silver gained more than 2 percent. A worker displays a 1kg gold bullion bar at the ABC Refinery in Sydney on Aug. 5, 2020. Silver rallied even harder than gold last year, hitting records and blowing through levels that until recently had seemed unthinkable to all but the most enthusiastic of market watchers. In addition to the factors that aided gold, silver has also been a beneficiary of sustained concerns that the US administration could eventually impose import tariffs on the refined metal.

Source: Taipei Times January 02, 2026 16:23 UTC