Gold soars past $4,400
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.6 | It's good to have you here on this Monday, December 22nd. I'm Julie Morgan. Gold rallies to historic highs. |
| 0:16.2 | Waymo experiences a service disruption, and the Robotaxy competition expands overseas. |
| 0:23.6 | Gold has topped $4,400 per ounce for the first time. As of the time of this recording, gold is up 1.6% at 4412 per ounce and is on course for its best annual performance in more than four decades. |
| 0:39.8 | Silver also rallied jumping 3.3% to our record $69.44. Both medals are set for their strongest |
| 0:48.4 | yearly performance since 1979. Traders are betting the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates twice in 2026 after a host |
| 0:58.6 | of economic data last week, while President Trump has also advocated for looser monetary policy. |
| 1:05.4 | Elsewhere, rising geopolitical tensions in recent weeks have further strengthened the safe haven appeal of gold and silver. |
| 1:12.8 | The United States has tightened its oil blockade on Venezuela, increasing pressure on President |
| 1:18.4 | Nicholas Maduro's government, while Ukraine has for the first time attacked an oil tanker |
| 1:24.2 | belonging to Russia's shadow fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. Gold-backed |
| 1:29.1 | ETFs have seen inflows rise for five straight weeks, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, |
| 1:35.0 | and World Gold Council figures show total holdings in these funds have risen every month this |
| 1:41.1 | year with the exception of May. Waymo owned by Alphabet has resumed its |
| 1:46.6 | Robotaxy service in the San Francisco Bay Area as of Sunday evening after suspending operations |
| 1:53.3 | due to a widespread blackout. The power outage left several autonomous vehicles immobilized. |
| 2:00.1 | Video shared on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped in traffic lanes or blocking intersections, |
| 2:06.7 | which worsened congestion at a time when failures had already disabled traffic lights. |
| 2:11.6 | A Waymo spokesperson told CNBC that while the failure of the utility infrastructure was significant, they are committed |
| 2:19.4 | to ensuring their technology adjust to traffic flow during such an event. Amid the blackout chaos, |
| 2:25.6 | the CEO of Tesla posted on X that Tesla robotaxies were not affected by the outage. |
| 2:31.9 | It's important to note that Tesla does not provide driverless robotaxie |
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