{"id":67383,"date":"2026-01-12T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67383"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:46:32","slug":"gold-silver-spike-to-record-highs-as-fed-independence-falters-whats-moving-markets-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67383","title":{"rendered":"Gold, Silver Spike To Record Highs As Fed Independence Falters: What&#8217;s Moving Markets Monday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Gold and silver surged to fresh record highs Monday as investors reassessed the Federal Reserve&#8217;s independence fears amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/26\/01\/49844018\/trump-versus-powell-doj-probe-kevin-hassett-fed-chair-odds\">a new political escalation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       \u2022\u00a0MACOM Technology stok is approaching key resistance levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MTSI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What\u2019s behind MTSI new highs?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold prices \u2014 as tracked by the <strong>SPDR Gold Shares <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"GLD\" data-exchange=\"ARCA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GLD\">GLD<\/a>) \u2014 jumped 2.5% to $4,620 an ounce, setting another all-time high. Silver also soared more than 7% to $86 an ounce, extending its 12-month rally to over 190%<\/p>\n<p>The move followed reports that the Department of Justice opened a criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chair <strong>Jerome<\/strong> <strong>Powell<\/strong> over renovation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/economic-data\/26\/01\/49844033\/jerome-powell-is-going-to-war-top-economist-wolfers-blasts-doj-as-department-of-recriminations-for-targeting-fed-chair\">costs at the Fed&#8217;s headquarters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powell framed the investigation as a pretext to pressure the central bank into cutting interest rates, directly clashing with President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s policy demands.<\/p>\n<p>Markets read the development as another attempt by the administration to challenge the Fed&#8217;s independence, with investors selling Treasuries and rotating aggressively into precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>Major stock averages on Wall Street showed timid gains as the market adopted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/26\/01\/49853087\/stock-market-news-monday-gold-silver-fed-powell-doj-probe-trump-wall-street?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Gold,\" silver spike to record highs as fed independence falters: what moving markets monday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold and silver surged to fresh record highs Monday as investors reassessed the Federal Reserve&#8217;s independence fears amid a new political escalation. \u2022\u00a0MACOM Technology stok is approaching key resistance levels. What\u2019s behind MTSI new highs? Gold prices \u2014 as tracked by the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) \u2014 jumped 2.5% to $4,620 an ounce, setting another [&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-67383","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\/67383","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=67383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}