Commodity Compass Weekly
Commodity Compass Weekly
Jennifer Pickerel
Commodity Compass – 1/23 - Natural Gas and Silver Take the Spotlight This Week
15 minutes Posted Jan 24, 2026 at 2:04 am.
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This week felt like a classic rotation trade: precious metals higher, base metals mixed, and energy chopping around as geopolitics and capital flows drove the tape. Gold and silver caught a strong bid as tensions around Greenland cooled, removing some near-term geopolitical risk but paradoxically pushing investors back into monetary hedges rather than hard-risk assets. Commentary from the World Economic Forum added to that tone, with policymakers openly discussing debt sustainability, de-globalization, and the fragility of sovereign balance sheets — not exactly a backdrop that inspires confidence in fiat assets.