One could expect that gold would perform better last year amid all the supply problems and a surge in inflation.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has pledged to cut carbon output 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Ranking of world’s 20 best selling electric cars and their battery metals show automakers grappling with soaring raw material prices.

Indonesia has played a key role in global markets as a bulk materials supplier, but President Joko Widodo has pledged to eventually stop exports of all raw commodities to turn the country into a major manufacturing hub for electric transportation.

Industrial metal markets are marching higher again, as production outages and shrinking inventories revive worries about global supplies.

Lithium has burst into 2022 with a fresh price spike that hands electric-vehicle makers more warning of even sharper cost pressures to come.

Job creation disappointed in December, but it could not be enough to counterweight rising real interest rates and save gold.

With interest rates poised to rise and the USD Index still undervalued, more headwinds should confront gold, silver, and mining stocks in the coming months.