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Gold Sheds 2% as Hot October CPI Puts a Half-Point Fed Hike in Play

Bullion slides to about US$4,055 and silver drops 3% as firmer inflation and a hawkish Governor Waller rattle precious metals, with CSE gold and silver juniors following them lower.

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Gold Sheds 2% as Hot October CPI Puts a Half-Point Fed Hike in Play

Gold strolled into Tuesday wearing a three-week high and left the morning session with its pockets turned inside out. A hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation report, landing on top of a Federal Reserve governor openly talking about a half-point rate hike, sent the metal down 2% and dragged silver and the junior explorers that live on both of them along for the ride.

Spot gold traded at US$4,054.90 an ounce in early U.S. trading, down 2% on the day, Kitco News reported shortly after the 8:30 a.m. ET data release. Kitco's morning report put the drop at US$84.10, or 2.03%, with silver down US$1.60, or 3.01%, at roughly US$51.70 an ounce. By about 10:30 a.m. ET, FXEmpire's ticker showed gold near US$4,049, off 2.16%. The reversal was sharp: December gold futures had opened at US$4,149, their first open above US$4,100 since October 22, according to Yahoo Finance, before the selling began.

The trigger was the October Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Headline CPI rose 0.4% month over month against the 0.3% economists expected, and core CPI, which strips out food and energy, rose 0.3% against a 0.2% forecast, its third straight 0.3% gain. There was no annual October figure: the BLS said it "did not collect survey data for October 2025 because of a lapse in appropriations," so the 12-month comparison simply does not exist this time.

What turned a warm print into a gold selloff was the Fed's rhetoric. Speaking at the Bank of England Watchers Conference in London, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said a 50-basis-point hike "should be considered at the December meeting," adding that "hiking only 25 basis points would put our credibility at risk." For a non-yielding metal, higher policy rates raise the cost of holding it, and markets responded accordingly. FXEmpire reported the 10-year Treasury yield up more than 7 basis points and the two-year up about 15, with a firmer U.S. dollar adding weight and CME FedWatch pricing a December hike as a certainty.

Waleed Said, technical analyst at GivTrade, told Kitco the core message is that inflation "is not coming back to target on its own," and that "gold down more than 2% on the day tells you the whole story." Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Northlight Asset Management, said in a note that he still expects a 25-basis-point move in December, but that the latest data puts a January hike on the table.

For junior miners, days like this are the other side of leverage to the metal price. On the Canadian Securities Exchange, precious-metals explorers were well represented among the session's biggest decliners by late morning. Silver Dollar Resources Inc. (CSE: SLV) was down 9.52% at C$0.19, Kuya Silver Corporation (CSE: KUYA) fell 6.12% to C$0.46, Guyana-focused G3 Goldfields Inc. (CSE: GTRE) slipped 5.26% to C$1.80, and Walhalla Gold Corp. (CSE: WAU) dropped 5.00% to C$0.09, according to Investcom's CSE losers list as of 11:14 a.m. ET. Silver names, carrying the steeper metal decline, took some of the hardest hits, a reminder that juniors tend to exaggerate whatever the underlying commodity is doing, in both directions.

Some perspective is in order before anyone declares the gold run over. Even after Tuesday's slide, gold opened the day up 4.8% against last week's opening price, according to Yahoo Finance, after a weaker dollar and sliding oil prices gave it room to climb. FXEmpire senior analyst James Hyerczyk described his bias as "cautiously bullish," noting both the minor and main trends remain up, though he flagged resistance near the 50-day moving average and a possible retest of main trend support around US$3,870. The calendar is crowded: producer prices on Friday, the PCE inflation index late this month, the Fed's decision on December 9 and the next CPI report on December 10. Any of those could reverse Tuesday's move just as quickly as one CPI print created it, and small-cap explorer shares can swing far more than the metal itself.

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