The price of gold and silver reached new all-time highs Monday, continuing a run for the commodities in 2025 that has seen a series of record-setting prices.

While previous surges have been attributed to investor uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s economic policies and interest rates, Monday’s rise comes amid escalating geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.

Oil prices also jumped to start the week, with U.S. crude rising 2.39% to $58 a barrel and Brent crude up 2.28% to $62 per barrel as Trump said he would not rule out a war with the South American nation.

The FDA approved the pill version of Novo Nordisk’s weight loss treatment Wegovy on Monday, marking the first oral GLP-1 medication that will hit the market. The pill—which is slated to launch in early January and will cost $149 a month—can help patients lose as much weight as a Wegovy injection, according to Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar. The company’s shares surged in after-hours trading following the announcement.

Robinhood cofounder Baiju Bhatt started company Aetherflux in 2023 with the goal of using solar panels in space to beam energy back down to Earth. Now, he’s abandoned that vision for a new idea: building data centers in space. And Bhatt isn’t the only billionaire who has thought of sending the power-hungry server racks into orbit. Tesla’s Elon Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have all started work on taking data centers to the stars.

Alphabet announced it will acquire clean energy startup Intersect Power in a deal valued at $4.75 billion, as the Google parent expands its data center output to meet........

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