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Q4 gold production 5% higher than Q3 at 871,000 ounces1, 2025 gold and copper production in line with guidance
Record quarterly cash flow with operating cash flow of $2.73 billion and free cash flow2 of $1.62 billion—up 13% and 9%, respectively, over Q3
Highest ever quarterly net earnings per share of $1.43 and adjusted net earnings per share2 of $1.04—up 88% and 79%, respectively, on Q3
New dividend policy targets total payout of 50% of attributable free cash flow, including 40% increase in quarterly base dividend to $0.175 per share, plus performance year end top-up
$0.42 per share quarterly dividend declared—a 140% increase over the third quarter
Repurchased $1.50 billion of shares in 2025, representing about 3.0% of Barrick’s issued and outstanding shares, including $500 million in Q4
Doubled gold resource at Fourmile project in Nevada with further increases expected in 20263
2026 production guidance: 2.90–3.25 million ounces1 of gold and 190,000–220,000 tonnes1 of copper
Following rigorous analysis, the Board has decided to move forward with preparations for an initial public offering (“IPO”) of Barrick’s North American gold assets in order to maximize shareholder value
On gold and silver, Armstrong is decidedly bullish on both metals and says, “This is not the major high…”
” We have too much craziness on the horizon, from sovereign debt default to war. You are just getting a pullback and consolidation…
I am looking at the $165 to $200 per ounce area for silver. For gold, I am looking at resistance at the $8,500 per ounce level and, after that, $10,000 per ounce . . . in the next few years.”
i seem to remember a few weeks ago posting a silver forecast that went something like this:
“lots of volatility (up AND down), increasing through jan, feb, and into early mar. much pissing and moaning (with fireworks) going into march deliveries.”
Netherlands To Tax Unrealized Gains: EU Wealth Grab And Global Implications
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by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Feb 05, 2026 – 12:30 AM
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
A fiscal storm is brewing in the Netherlands. With the potential introduction of a tax on unrealized capital gains, The Hague is set to become a testing ground for the systematic transfer of wealth from the private sector to the state. Across all government levels, the European Union is increasingly transforming into an aggressive parasitic system.
A fundamental clash between the public and private sectors is intensifying across the EU. In March, both chambers of the Dutch parliament will decide on the implementation of an annual tax on unrealized gains. Going forward, all increases in value—from real estate and stocks to bonds and cryptocurrencies—would fall under this fiscal framework.
This move significantly accelerates the extraction of capital from the private sector, constituting a political rule violation. Already taxed income and assets would be hit again based on hypothetical gains, severely impeding private wealth accumulation.
these massive hits are timely in the fact that any pop we should receive due to great PM earnings have been psychologically skewed by the carpet bombers….
deer79 – yep, getting ugly now. Never underestimate the ability of things to get worse. You know what my greatest fear is? That we hit the top over a week ago and I missed the opportunity to cash in my chips. Seems like we are right back to the way it’s always been with pm’s now. The Chinese New Year is an eternity for the scum to crush silver, especially with $10 moves like this.
Re Scum Algo’s……I don’t think they are that sophisticated, they employ good traders with unlimited Vol, with that u can make mkts do anything….all I know is some mkts do not trade as normal mkts….
Shanghai pm fix came in at $87.71. So, I guess it means they’re taking their queue from paper, I don’t know “who”s” paper, but whatever trades overnight.
That being said, somehow I thought it would be worse this am. 10% down is ugly in silver, but wondering why gold isn’t getting hit harder. The unfortunate part about Shanghai lowering the pm fix is that it tightens the spread and the scum doesn’t have to worry about it now. If we closed here, an $8 spread is about where it’s been on most days, it’s hard to see any recovery.
I can’t make sense of any of it. Maybe demand is slowing and the industrial guys are holding off to see what happens.
We re-tested the lows of Friday again, hopefully that’s all this is.
I wonder how far out those contracts go. If they move out into Q4 there might just be some truth to the Judy Shelton comment about Trump/revaluation/gold backed bonds.
It’s surprising how many people are sleeping right through this right now. More people are waking up but not like it was in the 1980s. If something happens to their currency they’ll be caught unaware and unprepared.
I hope they push back on this unrealized gains meaning no taxable gains and get the ones entertaining it, their enemies, out of government. The end of times in Rome robbing the city’s and then it fell. It’s just another money grabbing scam to confiscate other peoples property, it’s criminal. Once they get away with that with one thing they’ll do it to everything. They’re no justification for it and they know it. They want gold or silver, go buy it themselves, they get paid enough for doing nothing but sitting around spending and mismanaging other people’s money and dreaming up ways to steal more from them when they run out of that money.
“Its bitcoin holdings were purchased at an average price of just over $111,000 each.
Bitcoin was trading at $78,442 per token on Tuesday, having fallen from its peak of around $124,000 in October last year.
The firm now owns 2,674 bitcoin, and Webley says he plans to keep buying the tokens in the future. Smarter Web Company last bought bitcoin on 22 January at $90,289 per token.”
If Bitcoin is tumbling with all these big buyers mopping it up then there really is no floor. Below $73k now.
What’s concerning is one of the first comments a person named Pamela said she bought quarter silver small coins and pasted tests but was peeling on part of the coin. Counterfeit. She bought it at APMEX. Said they don’t sell those coins anymore. Apmex
He gives some test you can do without equipment. Never heard about the ice test.
