💰🤑FOMO = Fear Of Missing Ounces As Gold Rockets Past $4,300

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Gold didn’t just glint on Friday, October 17, 2025—it blazed, sprinting to an intraday record around $4,378/oz and cruising above $4,300 as investors piled into the classic safety blanket. Traders cited a cocktail of banking jitters, renewed U.S.–China trade friction, and rising hopes for Fed cuts as the spark behind the melt-up. By late session, spot held near $4,336, pacing an ~8% weekly gain, while U.S. futures tagged the mid-$4,300s. Silver, never one to be upstaged, also printed fresh records north of $54/oz.

If the tape felt twitchy, there was a reason: headlines about US regional lenders (including Zions and Western Alliance) put credit quality under the microscope again, sending global equities lower and safe-haven demand higher. Think of it as Mr. Market’s “stress test pop quiz,” with gold turning in the only extra-credit assignment.

The rally enjoyed some fundamental tailwinds from central-bank appetite, ETF accumulation (with the SPDR Gold Trust reported at its highest holdings since mid-2022), and a macro backdrop where a softer growth pulse plus cooler inflation keeps rate-cut probabilities alive. Translation for diversified investors - when risk assets wobble, the yellow metal still knows how to carry the team—colors, marching band, and all.

In Asia, festival-season buying pushed India’s physical premiums to decade-plus highs even as soaring prices tested jewelry demand. In other words, sentiment may be anxious, but the bullion aisle is buzzing. If FOMO now stands for “Fear Of Missing Ounces,” today’s tape made the acronym feel oddly… comforting.

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