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Precious Metals Surge While Major Indexes Hold Strong Amid Holiday Lull

This week was quiet due to the holidays, though several graphics highlight market action. The Dow hasn’t hit new highs since Nov. 12 but stays in scoring position. Three major indexes reached all-time highs, with many others close. Precious metals surged—silver up 34%, the XAU 25%, and gold 7%—far outpacing other assets.

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December 8, 2025

Mark Lundeen

I didn’t do much this week, blame it on the holiday season. But I did a few graphics I’ll pass along. First is my chart on the Dow Jones in daily bars. No new all-time highs since November 12th, but the Dow Jones has remained in scoring position in the past month.

Now on to my table listing the BEV values for the major market indexes I follow. The week closed with three of them closing at a new all-time high, and the next fifteen indexes closed deep into scoring position. This isn’t a hot market, but it could easily be should some “liquidity” begin flowing into the stock market.

Look at this week’s performance table above, compared to what it was two weeks ago. Silver in the past ten trading days has leaped forward by 34%, the XAU by 25%, and gold up by about seven percent. Everything else not precious in the tables above were up too, but nothing compared to what silver or the XAU did in the past two weeks.

I have a few more graphics with major indexes to look at below, but sorry, that is it for this week’s commentary,

(Featured image by Joshua Mayo via Unsplash)

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Mark Lundeen

I joined the US Navy in 1977 and began reading Barron’s in the base library. When laptop computers began to have hard drives on them, I began compiling the historic day from old issues of Barron’s. When I retired from the Navy in 1994, I spent about two years at college libraries compiling Barron’s historical data. I’ve been writing articles on the markets, with some social commentary, for Le Metropole Café and Gold Eagle since 2006.