Your Gold Can Do Something It Couldn't Before | Joseph Cavatoni

Your Gold Can Do Something It Couldn't Before | Joseph Cavatoni

July 16, 2026 · 22 min

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Joseph Cavatoni discusses the recent trends in the gold market and the impact of investor behavior on gold prices.

Everyone says the West dumped gold this quarter. The World Gold Council's data says that's wrong, the selling was narrow, American, and almost entirely paper. Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton, WGC senior market strategist Joseph Cavatoni said North American investors fled gold ETFs on rate fears while Asia bought "at a record pace." Gold's worst quarter in 13 years, he argued, was the work of short-term traders, not a broken thesis, as a safe haven, gold "cut...

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