{"id":55147,"date":"2026-01-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=55147"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:09:38","slug":"winter-precious-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/winter-precious-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"The winter of precious metals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This 2025 has been a year that will go down in history for the true explosion of gold. Beyond occasional spikes, the yellow metal has reaffirmed its role as a safe haven, a diversification asset, and a sign of distrust toward conventional assets. Now, with the 2026 horizon ahead, it is worth asking: is this only a temporary surge or the prelude to a new cycle? And above all, what will it mean for savers and investors like you?<\/b><\/h3>\n

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For almost a decade, gold lived in a kind of exile. Modest returns, institutional disinterest, and a dominant narrative proclaiming that technological assets \u2014and even cryptocurrencies\u2014 were \u201cthe future.\u201d In this context, <\/span>the yellow metal seemed like a relic useful only<\/b> at specific moments of turbulence.<\/span><\/p>\n

But 2025 has completely turned this script upside down. The price of gold has not only climbed; it has done so by <\/span>breaking psychological and structural levels it had not breached for years<\/b>. Financial demand has regained unexpected vigour: in the United States alone, gold ETFs recorded a 58% year-on-year increase in the third quarter, according to <\/span>World Gold Council<\/span><\/a> data. It is a <\/span>move that had not been seen in a long time and reveals a profound shift in investor sentiment<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This reappearance is not accidental. It responds to a cocktail of factors that, combined, create the kind of scenario that has historically fueled gold bull markets:<\/span><\/p>\n