🥇 How is the Leader in Gold production ?

• 🇨🇳 #China: 380 tonnes. st1 producer globally
• 🇷🇺 #Russia : 330 tonnes, largely outside Western markets
• 🇦🇺 Australia: 284 tonnes, stable but mature
• 🇨🇦 #Canada : 202 tonnes
• 🇺🇸 United States: 158 tonnes (biggest holder of gold)

The top producers are either state-driven, sanctioned, or politically strategic.

At the same time:
• Central banks are buying at record pace
• Supply growth is slow
• Marginal ounces are getting more expensive

#GOLD isn’t just going up because of inflation.
It’s going up because control over supply is tightening.

#minerals #metals

Western silver prices pulled back from $120 to $105.

Shanghai silver prices advanced from $134 to $136.

Indian silver prices rose from $119 to $129.

Asian buyers are paying a $10-$22 premium.

Demand for physical silver is still strong.

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#Silver has crashed 17% in the past 24 hours and has erased $1.1 Trillion from its market cap.

Safe heaven asset is trading like an crypto Altcoin now.

🧵 IRAQ RATE CHANGE:

Multiple convergent signals point to imminent action.

Weekend banking ordered, CBI launches media campaign, expert commits to "gap elimination."

Here's what's aligning:

🏦 WEEKEND BANKING CRISIS (Jan 30-31)

Iraqi Ministry of Finance orders ALL government banks open Fri-Sat until salary distribution complete.

Salaries delayed 4-5 days past normal schedule (usually 20th-25th).

Official narrative: "liquidity shortage"
Alternative read: Positioning for rate event

📺 CBI MEDIA BLITZ

Central Bank signed formal MoU with National Media Network (Jan 29) for mass awareness campaign:

• Boost public confidence in banking system & Iraqi Dinar
• "Counter inaccurate foreign perceptions of Iraq's economy"
• Nationwide financial literacy push

You don't launch confidence campaigns unless something big is coming.

💥 SAFWAN QUSAY: "GAP TO ZERO"

Economic expert (CBI advisor) publicly stated: "The Central Bank is working to reduce the price gap to ZERO through well-thought-out procedures."

Zero gap between official/parallel rates = rate mechanism change required.

Can't achieve with enforcement alone.

⚙️ INFRASTRUCTURE READY

• Oliver Wyman timetable confirmed (ongoing meetings)
• Sanctioned banks REACTIVATED after tech compliance
• K2 Integrity monitoring irregular trade
• ASYCUDA system covering 90% of trade volume
• 70% private sector integration underway.

🇻🇳 VIETNAM PARALLEL

Vietnam mandated ALL cryptocurrency transactions use Vietnamese Dong exclusively (effective Jan 20):

• Creates upward demand pressure on Dong
• Mirrors Iraq's gap elimination strategy
• "Monetary sovereignty & financial stability" priority

Two countries, same playbook, same timeframe.

📊 US REGULATORY ALIGNMENT

CFTC final rule revision (effective Jan 29) includes foreign currency swaps + digital asset integration.

SEC-CFTC joint alliance under Trump admin's "crypto capital" agenda.

Global currency reset infrastructure being finalized at regulatory level.

⏰ TIMING CONVERGENCE

• Thu-Fri (Jan 29-30): CBI verbal positioning, media launch, salary delays

• Weekend (Jan 30-31): Forced weekend banking (RARE)

• Early next week: Expected next phase visibility

The rate mechanism cannot be activated until PM outcome is resolved...

All three constraints converging simultaneously.

🎯 BOTTOM LINE

Banks don't stay open weekends without reason.

Central banks don't commit to "zero gap" without structural solution.

Media campaigns don't launch days before business-as-usual.

Either genuine crisis OR cover story for transition.

Given tech readiness + CBI messaging, Option 2 more likely.

⚠️ CRITICAL WINDOW: Jan 30-31 (This Weekend)

Watch for:
• Extended banking hours Sunday
• CBI rate announcement
• Parallel market collapse
• Gold/silver correlation moves

If salaries pay out normally with no rate change = false alarm.

If banks stay operational past Friday close = something's moving.

🔐

Supply chain wars are in full swing.

China’s dominance in rare earth mining and processing has sent a shockwave through the US administration.

They are now trying to regain independence.

- Meeting allies to de-Chinafy
- The trade war
- Subsidizing mining and processing facilities
- Strategic metal stockpiles

These are all measures to loosen China’s chokehold.

This issue is a top priority and will be the defining investment trend of the next decade.

China is steadily removing the dollar from its trade system.

- Yuan trade settlement rose from ~12% in 2019
- It climbed to roughly 30% by 2024–2025
- That is a ~170% increase in 6 years

China has a dominant global role:

- China is the biggest trade partner to most countries
- Processes 90% of the world’s critical minerals

China has been pushing trade partners to settle directly in yuan, reducing reliance on dollar clearing and Western banks.

- For exporters, using yuan lowers exposure to sanctions and asset freezes
- For China, it pulls partners further into its sphere of influence
- For the US, this is a catastrophe... demand for USTs is falling while supply is rising

Don’t be mistaken: this is war, economic warfare for now, but the US won’t give up dollar hegemony without a fight.

Hard assets will outperform in this volatile era.

Friday, Jan 30 2026, 12:00 UTC time

📋 ✅ US: Dollar heads for a second weekly drop as market trims Fed rate-hike odds; US 10-year yield ticks up on Kevin Warsh Fed chatter. US-El Salvador sign trade pact to boost critical-minerals investment. Market impact: softer USD supports risk assets; watch PPI and Fed signals. 

🔖 📌 Canada: TSX retreats after fresh records; headlines note U.S.-Canada tensions — Trump threatens grounding Canadian aircraft and tariffs (WSJ), raising geopolitics risk and downside pressure on the CAD. Analysts flag potential CAD weakness if disputes escalate. 

📋 🔖 Australia & New Zealand: Australia Q4 producer inflation undershoots and private credit growth hits 5½-year high — AUD set for a second weekly gain. New Zealand consumer confidence at a 4.5-year high and NZD poised for a strong monthly gain. Market take: AU/NZ FX strength vs USD amid easing PPI and firmer domestic demand signals. 

✅ 📌 China & FX: Offshore yuan eyes a fourth monthly gain as Asian risk dynamics improve; China to lower whisky tariffs with UK (trade tone positive). EUR set for a ~1.5% monthly gain; EUR/USD volatile on Warsh/Fed chatter. 

📋 🔖 Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Eurozone): Eurozone posts resilient 2025 growth; inflation expectations tick up in ECB poll. France Q4 GDP +0.2% (prelim), households cut spending; producer inflation slows. Germany Q4 growth +0.3%, import prices down sharply; bund yields drifting lower ahead of inflation reads. Italy Q4 GDP beats forecasts; BTP yields under 3.5%. UK mortgage approvals fall to lowest since 2024 while sterling nears a four-year high. Switzerland KOF barometer slips — watch CHF for safe-haven flows. 

📋 ✅ South Korea & Japan: Korea won slips amid trade uncertainty—monitor export data and FX sensitivity. (No major Japan-specific headlines in this batch.) 

🔖 📌 Brazil: Ibovespa reverses early gains to close lower — watch commodity/FX links for spillovers to EM risk. 

📋 ✅ Markets to watch: Oil/earnings calendar, US PPI, central bank cues (Fed/ECB/BoE/BoC), and geopolitics (US-Canada tensions) — these will steer yields, USD, EUR, CAD, AUD/NZD and CHF in the near term.

"U.S. BOMBERS ARE GETTING READY TO STRIKE IRAN"

Two KC-135R Stratotankers and one KC-46A Pegasus tanker departed from Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, heading northwest.

These tankers are providing aerial refueling support for multiple B-52H Stratofortress heavy bombers transiting across the Pacific Ocean.

These B-52H bombers are part of a strategic transit across the Pacific Ocean, with reports indicating they may be destined for Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to join other B-52s in the region.

This buildup echoes prior patterns seen in 2025, when B-52s and B-2 Spirits rotated through Diego Garcia amid tensions with Iran and its proxies.

The current leadership in Iran has grounds to begin feeling concerned.........

‼️🇺🇸 Four B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have departed the United States and are en route to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean.

The Warsh Doctrine: A Fed Reset

Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh signals a regime change at the Fed — away from heavy intervention and toward credibility and discipline.

Warsh rejects rigid “higher for longer,” favors balance-sheet discipline over QE, and warns against financial repression. Markets may read this as hawkish at first, but the bigger shift is less Fed distortion and better price discovery.

Winners: financials, insurers, real-asset industrials, and alternative asset managers.
Near term: higher volatility as markets reprice the rules.

Different Fed. Different game.