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Global Metals Fever Grips Markets, Even Gold Gets Swept Up

Global metals markets are experiencing an unprecedented speculative boom — driven by retail frenzy and leveraged trading — forcing exchanges to intervene and causing volatility across metals including gold, silver, copper and lithium.

Key Facts:

📈 Record trading mania in China: Shanghai and Guangzhou futures exchanges have raised margins and tightened rules 38 times to curb extreme speculative flows.

🪙 Volatility hits gold too: The metals craze, fueled by online traders and social platforms like WeChat, has swept even traditionally stable safe-haven assets such as gold into intense price swings.

📊 Retail-driven momentum: Micro contracts and options trading have exploded, with volumes dwarfing global physical consumption in some cases — making paper trading a key driver of prices.

Expert Insight:
What began as a rush into industrial and precious metals has morphed into a speculation-driven volatility cycle — one where even gold’s safe-haven status is being tested by algorithmic flows and retail crowd psychology.

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