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COPPER SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE! Inventory Hits Critical Zero, Many Sites Showing It As ‘OUT OF STOCK’

Major dealers are reporting a complete sell out on COPPER inventory. Standard 1oz rounds and 10oz bars are on backorder for 6-12 months.

This is the exact same signal we saw before SILVER began its historic rally. Physical demand increases, and the price follows.

The Catalyst: Global copper deficit has hit 600,000 tons already in 2026. We are seeing a first of its kind run on the “strategic metals.”

If you thought the Silver squeeze was tight, wait until you see what happens when the world runs out of the wire needed to power it.

Physical copper markets have officially reached a breaking point. Boots on the ground reports from global hubs show inventories at historic lows, with effectively zero physical metal left for immediate delivery.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/copper-sold-out-everywhere-inventory-hits-critical-zero-many-sites-showing-it-as-out-of-stock/

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Oil, Gold, and the End of the Petrodollar: The Real Venezuela Story

By ITM Trading

The United States did not just topple a dictator. It may have triggered the next chapter in the global rejection of the dollar.

While headlines focus on drugs and humanitarian crises, the real story lies beneath the surface. Heavy crude. Gold. Rare earth elements. Venezuela is more than a failed state. It is a resource hub at the center of a monetary realignment already in motion.

For decades, U.S. refineries have been calibrated for the one kind of oil we barely produce ourselves. Heavy crude. Venezuela has it. Canada has it. But with Canada already supplying sixty percent of U.S. imports and BRICS nations making strategic moves in South America, Washington acted.

This is not foreign policy. It is monetary survival.

Venezuela had moved outside the dollar. Selling oil to China. Partnering on infrastructure through the Belt and Road Initiative. Joining a rising group of nations building a gold-based system to sidestep Western financial dominance.

Then suddenly, hours after Maduro meets with Chinese officials, he is taken into custody. A new power structure is declared. 

Some of Venezuela’s gold is frozen in the Bank of England. Billions of dollars’ worth. The rest lies in the ground. Or at least it did. If you do not hold it, you do not own it. Venezuela learned that the hard way.

This intervention is not a return to order. It is a scramble to delay collapse. Since the freezing of Russia’s reserves in 2022, the world has been on notice. The dollar is not neutral. It is a weapon. And if it can be weaponized, it can be replaced.

This move buys the United States time. But it also sends a message to every other country considering gold settlement or dollar alternatives. The system is fragile. So fragile that it now requires force to sustain 

And that is a message the world will not forget.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-01-06/oil-gold-and-end-petrodollar-real-venezuela-story

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