{"id":53277,"date":"2025-10-16T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=53277"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:01:32","slug":"gold-hits-4270-bitcoin-plunges-below-110000-whats-moving-markets-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=53277","title":{"rendered":"Gold Hits $4,270, Bitcoin Plunges Below $110,000: What&#8217;s Moving Markets Thursday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In an otherwise cautious session on Wall Street, gold and silver stole the spotlight once again, with both precious metals pushing to fresh record highs \u2014 gold touching $4,270 per ounce and silver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SLV\">climbing to $53.90<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>    \u2022 GDX is reaching significant price levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GDX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See what is driving the movement here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s 1.5% gain in gold positions it to close its 14th positive session out of the past 16, extending its year-to-date rally to 63%, putting it well on track for the best annual performance since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Gold miners are riding the wave higher. The <strong>VanEck Gold Miners ETF<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GDX\">GDX<\/a>) rose another 4% Thursday, after gaining 3.9% the day before. That brings the fund&#8217;s weekly gain to 12%, while its year-to-date return now sits at a staggering 150%, outperforming every other equity industry tracked on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the <strong>Global X Artificial Intelligence &amp; Technology ETF<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AIQ\">AIQ<\/a>) \u2014 a popular vehicle for AI-focused names \u2014 is up just 30% year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Fueling Thursday\u2019s rally in precious metals were dovish comments from Federal Reserve Gov.<strong> Christopher Waller<\/strong>, who expressed support for another rate cut at the upcoming Federal &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/10\/48257198\/markets-today-thursday-wall-street-gold-rally-bitcoin-selloff-silver-all-time-highs-tsmc-earnings\" alt=\"Gold\" hits bitcoin plunges below what moving markets thursday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise cautious session on Wall Street, gold and silver stole the spotlight once again, with both precious metals pushing to fresh record highs \u2014 gold touching $4,270 per ounce and silver climbing to $53.90. \u2022 GDX is reaching significant price levels. See what is driving the movement here. Thursday&#8217;s 1.5% gain in gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-53277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}