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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Gold has found itself on a roller coaster ride, hitting

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Speaker 2: record highs followed by large drops.

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Speaker 1: It's been voltaile, it's been bumpy, and I think the

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Speaker 1: Year of the Horse, you're going to need a very

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Speaker 1: comfortable settle because it's gonna be very bumpy.

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Speaker 2: With investors uncertain about where the price might go next.

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Speaker 2: Could investments in Africa be at risk?

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Speaker 3: So in the case of gold, I don't see any

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Speaker 3: of these trends reversing themselves anytime soon. I think one

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Speaker 3: of the things that really has changed is just the

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Speaker 3: world is waking up to this awareness of how critical

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Speaker 3: all of these commodities and minerals and metals are to

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Speaker 3: everyday life.

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Speaker 2: On this week's Next Africa Podcast, we'll ask what exactly

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Speaker 2: is happening to the price of gold and whether historically

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Speaker 2: high prices will be enough to keep confidence in African

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Speaker 2: gold mines. I'm Jennifer's Abasajup and this is the Next

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Speaker 2: Africa Podcast, bringing you one story each week from the

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Speaker 2: continent driving the future of global growth with the context

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Speaker 2: only Bloomberg can provide. And joining me to discuss this

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Speaker 2: today is Bloomberg Medals and Mining reporter Jack Ryan, and

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Speaker 2: also Bloomberg Intelligence Metals and Mining analyst Emmanuel Munjeri. Thank

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Speaker 2: you both so much for being here. It's been quite

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Speaker 2: a few weeks and months for the precious metal.

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Speaker 1: Jack.

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Speaker 2: Maybe let's just start with you, because you've been watching

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Speaker 2: closely what's happened to gold over the past few weeks.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a lot on this podcast about the rising

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Speaker 2: of the prices over the past few weeks, but now

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Speaker 2: the narrative has changed quite a bit. Can you just

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Speaker 2: walk us through from where you sit what you've noticed.

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Speaker 1: I guess you could go back to twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, when central bank buying really picked off

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Speaker 1: It led to this kind of long, slow build up

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Speaker 1: of January, all of this background noise you had going

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Speaker 1: on crazy headlines about Greenland, about Jerome Powell, Venezuela, Iran.

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Speaker 3: But right now we are going to do something on Greenland,

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Speaker 3: whether they like it or not.

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Speaker 4: The US, as you said, has carried out a series

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Speaker 4: his wife. It's an existential moment for the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 1: It was just kind of a cacophony in the background,

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Speaker 1: which I mean, all of that tends to be good

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Speaker 2: I wonder Jack, do you think the safe haven status

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Speaker 1: I guess to an extent, you can see it serves

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's been a continuing discussion, Emmanuel. I want

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Speaker 2: to bring you in here because you've been looking at

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Speaker 2: What kind of investment boost has there been? Have we

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Speaker 4: I think it's been. I think it's been quite massive

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Speaker 4: As a lot of the miners head into earning seasons,

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Speaker 4: And you know, we've got to realize that a lot

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Speaker 4: And it's a big thing. Usually is some of this

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Speaker 4: our perspective, we're definitely expecting to see a lot more

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Speaker 2: Well, and just on that, Emmanuel, I mean, it sounds like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Bloomberg intelligence team is bullish on more

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Speaker 2: that we are seeing more volatility. Does that affect your

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Speaker 4: It's a good question. Mining is a long term sector

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Speaker 4: They're looking for not necessarily avoiding the day to day volatility,

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Speaker 4: our view we are still quite positive when not look

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Speaker 4: future projects. I'm sure we're going to see a lot

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, that's a good place to be in not

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Speaker 2: paying attention to the near term noise. Emmanuel, Jack, stick

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the roller coaster across the gold markets.

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Speaker 2: Jack Ryan and Emanuel mcjerry are still with me. So Jack,

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Speaker 2: it's not just been gold where we've seen big movements.

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Speaker 2: You're taking a look at some of the other metals

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Speaker 2: where we've seen some wild wing silver to mention, can

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Speaker 2: some of the other precious metals that have been really

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Speaker 1: Silver is a really interesting one. And if you look

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Speaker 2: Metals melt down. Gold and silver continue to plunge, adding

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Speaker 1: Gold and silver prices continued to fall after in the

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Speaker 1: star crash that happened in nineteen eighty, in early nineteen eighty,

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Speaker 1: that happened in twenty eleven, to a lesser extent in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. And now I suppose the question would be,

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Speaker 1: you know, really dramatic pullback on Friday where at one

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Speaker 1: long long way. I think one of the issues for

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Speaker 1: silver is that you have sometimes spikes in investment demand,

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Speaker 1: for physical bars and coins. In this case, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: so the market became quite tight, and prices obviously have

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Speaker 2: That's fascinating. I didn't know people were taking in their

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Speaker 4: I think the key one is copper, and we just

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Speaker 2: There's quite a lot to pay attention to for both

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Speaker 1: For me, it's kind of going back to what I

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Speaker 4: like Jack said of the Devil's metal silver in terms

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Speaker 2: And you can read all of our coverage on metals

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Speaker 2: and mining across Bloomberg platform. Now here's some of the

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Speaker 2: other stories from the region we've been following. This week,

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Speaker 2: for one year, though the step has little immediate impact

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Speaker 2: because of global tariff's. President Donald Trump imposed renewal of

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Speaker 2: the African Growth and Opportunity Act or a go UP,

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Speaker 2: originally enacted in two thousand. Demonstrates continued by partisan support

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Speaker 2: for trade with the region in a politically divided Congress,

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Speaker 2: and the head of Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission

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Speaker 2: Kenya has a painful history of disputed elections that have

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Speaker 2: resulted in violence, eroding public trust in the electoral authority,

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Speaker 2: and you can follow these stories across Bloomberg, including the

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Speaker 2: Next African Newsletter. Will put a link to that in

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Speaker 2: the show notes. This program was produced by Adrian Bradley

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Speaker 2: and tiwa Adebayo. Don't forget to follow and review the

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