A look at the 2025 markets so far: holiday-thinned trading keeps extreme bets aside. Precious metals lead gains, while the cryptocurrency market falls as the worst-performing asset of the year. Stay updated on key market trends and investment insights. 

Markets in Numbers 2025: Precious Metals Rise, Crypto Worst-Performing Asset

Gold has re-emerged as a strategic geopolitical asset as nations seek protection from sanctions, inflation and dollar risk. Record central bank buying, BRICS de-dollarisation and frozen reserves have made gold a sanctions-resistant store of value reshaping global finance.

Gold and geopolitics: Why countries hoard the metal

Chinese scientists have recently succeeded in creating single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of just one 200,000th of the diameter of a human hair. Watch this report for more details!

Chinese scientists develop 2D metals 200,000 times thinner than human hair

Experts dissect hands of Peruvian 'alien mummies', make a shocking discovery of...

A burned metal from SpaceX spacecraft falls in Canadaian farm. Farmer now plans to sell it

Wear your scars, they said. So this 'cannibal' dead star took it quite literally

Thieves may have stolen radioactive metal from Japan's Tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Japan says workers stole possibly radioactive metal from Fukushima

How Ukraine war left China's 'Nickel King' on hook for billions

Believe it or not! These trees consume poisonous metals

Inspiration for high fashion can come from strange places. For one Taiwanese designer, it's upcycling old wires and bolts from the power industry. Wang Li-ling, 36, scours dumps, picking up old bits of metal and wires from Taiwan's main electricity supplier to add extra flair to her clothes.

Lights! Models! Garbage! Taiwan designer turns waste into fashion

Sensex up 180 points; metals, pharma stocks rally

Gold set for first weekly gain in a month

Sensex closes 157 points higher, Nifty near 11,850 as metal, bank stocks rally

The NSE Nifty ended 1 per cent higher led by the metal, PSU bank stock

Sensex closes above 36,000 mark at all-time high

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