{"id":164197,"date":"2025-09-23T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:29:08","slug":"silver-xag-usd-rockets-to-fresh-14-year-highs-on-dovish-fed-and-robust-fundamental-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164197\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver XAG\/USD rockets to fresh 14-year highs on dovish Fed and robust fundamental outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"1afbv\">Let\u2019s start by establishing a fundamental economic concept: in a total vacuum, lower interest rates benefit non-yielding assets like silver, since the opportunity cost for holding precious metals compared to cash is reduced.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ejsbu\">So, why did the recent Federal Reserve rate cut hurt silver pricing?<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bg908\">The devil is, of course, in the details.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7bn5u\">Naturally, nothing in the market is black and white; in this case, Fed Chair Jerome Powell described the cut as a \u2018risk-management\u2019 cut rather than a response to a weakening economy.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"emh78\">This would be a much more hawkish stance than previously thought, which, at least at first, would seriously temper expectations that this would mark the first cut of a deep-cutting cycle.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bi040\">Considering the predicted trajectory of Fed interest rates before this, generally pegged at two further cuts before year-end, even the slightest suggestion that rates could be kept higher not only weakened demand for precious metals, but also simultaneously strengthened the dollar.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9q03j\">What\u2019s happened since then, however, is a textbook example of reaction versus response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start by establishing a fundamental economic concept: in a total vacuum, lower interest rates benefit non-yielding assets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,49,48,100],"class_list":["post-164197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}