XRP/USD Exchange rate

Gold is closing in on $4,400 early Monday, renewing lifetime highs, helped by renewed geopolitical tensions. Israel-Iran conflict and US-Venezuela headlines drive investors toward the traditional store of value, Gold. 

AUD/USD is grinding higher above 0.6600 in Monday's Asian trading. The pair cheers an upbeat market mood and a hawkish RBA monetary policy outlook for 2026. The PBOC's no rate change decision seems to have little impact on the pair as a holiday-shortened week kicks in. 

USD/JPY loses ground and drops below 157.50 in the Asian session on Monday. The Japanese Yen recovers the BoJ's expected rate hike decision-led losses amid a minor US Dollar uptick and a risk-on market mood. 

The festive period officially starts next week, with many traders vacating their desks until the first full week of January, making way for thin trading volumes and very few top-tier releases.

You don’t need another 2008 for the system to reset. You just need enough nations to stop settling trade in dollars. And that’s already happening. "If gold is the anchor, what actually moves value in a post-dollar world?” It’s a question most gold investors overlook. We think in terms of storage and preservation, but in the new rails being built, settlement speed matters just as much as soundness of money.