Precious Metals Price Update: Gold, Silver, PGMs Face Another Bumpy Week

2026-02-18 16:10:00 ET

Precious metals prices continued to face downward pressure this week as investors took strong US economic data and a changing geopolitical landscape into consideration.

After climbing to fresh all-time highs at the start of 2026, a myriad of factors in February have seemingly taken the sails out gold, silver and platinum prices. However, the underlying fundamentals for the precious metals remain strong, resulting in a resiliency that lends optimism to higher price points to come in 2026.

Let’s take a look at what got spot prices moving over the past week.

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