Morning Bites (part 2) 🏦Global central banks purchased 51t (net) of gold in June, vs. the revised 45t (net) in May, according to World Gold Council data. The major buyers in June were Poland (+19t) and China (+15t), which outweighed sales by Russia (-9t) and Turkey (-2t) Although, at spot, gold continues to trade way above what we see as its cost support level (the 90%-ile AISC was ~USD 2,450/oz in 1Q26, on our num…

Channel
Metals Wire
@metalswire
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
686subscribers
+5 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001676798072 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @metalswire |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/metalswire |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 14:17 | 686 | +5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:32 | 681 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:20 | 681 | first reading |
Engagement
18 posts held, back to 20 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 14.1%
- avg views ÷ 686 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 97.1
- 18 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.855%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 18
- of 18 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 1 of 18 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 6 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 18 (20 July 2026 – 6 August 2026) |
| Views total | 1,747 |
| Reactions total | 1 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 7 Aug 2026, 06:32 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Reaction mix
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 20 July 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Morning Bites (part 1) ⛏️ Codelco has halted its expansion of the El Teniente copper mine amid new seismic risks, revealed by geotechnical study, Bloomberg reports, citing a company statement. The decision is based on data collected over the past six months, pointing to a seismic phenomenon Although Codelco has not yet officially announced a timeline, a union leader does not expect the development of the mine’s And…
Morning Bites 💍Hong Kong jewellery and watch sales grew 20% YoY in June, vs. the 26% YoY gain in May, per government data. According to Rapaport, local sales growth was supported by the ongoing economic expansion, rising local incomes and a steady increase in inbound tourism (the number of Mainland visitors was up 16% YoY in 1H26), as well as stronger consumer confidence However, we maintain our cautious view on th…
Morning Bites (part 2) 🇪🇺 Total car sales in the EU rose 8% YoY in 2Q26 🚗💨 Internal combustion engine (ICE) car registrations in Europe fell 2% YoY in 2Q26, followng the 3% YoY decline in 1Q26. Petrol car sales dropped 16% YoY (vs. -17% YoY in 1Q26), while diesel car sales slid 17% YoY. Diesel cars accounted for 23% of total ICE car registrations. Stronger HEV sales (+13% YoY in 2Q26) partially offset the contracti…
Morning Bites (part 1) 🌏 Global manufacturing PMIs showed mixed dynamics in July. The Eurozone Markit Manufacturing PMI came in at 51.9 (vs. 51.4 in June), while the US ISM Manufacturing PMI jumped to 55.6 (vs. 53.3 earlier), reflecting stronger output amid solid demand, resilient investments (including AI‑related capex) and still low inventories 🇨🇳 The official NBS Manufacturing PMI in China, however, edged down t…
Morning Bites 🇨🇱Chile’s copper output increased 5% YoY in June, vs. the 13% YoY decline in May, mainly due to the low base effect, per the INE data. On a 1H26 basis, output was still down 7% YoY, affected by ongoing grade depletion and other operating challenges. Meanwhile, heavy snowfalls in late-July interrupted mining operations at some Chilean mines, which is likely to add more pressure to copper supply Conside…
Week ahead data releases in M&M As the reporting season continues, some global miners are scheduled to release their 1H/2Q26 financials this week. Overall, we are broadly in line with the consensus on most of the majors’ EBITDA, but slightly more upbeat on the performance of Glencore and Torex #reporting_season
Morning Bites 🏆Global physical gold demand increased 7% YoY to 987t in 2Q26 (also being 46% higher YoY in value terms, as gold prices were up 37% YoY in 2Q26), vs. the revised 9% YoY decline in 1Q26, per World Gold Council data. Specifically, gold jewellery demand dropped 12% YoY in 2Q26, but central bank purchases surged 62% YoY. Among other key demand segments, a moderate decline was recorded in Bars&Coins (-3% Yo…
Morning Bites 💍LVMH's organic sales of watches and jewellery increased 11% YoY in 2Q26, compared with the 7% YoY gain in 1Q26, the company revealed in a press-release. LVMH reported solid first‑half results, while stressing that its operating environment remains unsettled and further strained by the conflict in the Middle East We maintain our cautious view on the prospects for global diamond market recovery in 2026…
Morning Bites 🔗CISA mills daily crude steel production in mid-July was 2.015mnt, down 0.3% from the previous ten days, and 5.9% lower YoY. Per CISA data, local production has declined 5.4% YTD (through 20 July). Meanwhile, local steel inventories expanded 8.1% over the period and were also 15.8% higher YoY Given the ongoing weakness in the global steel market, we believe that Beijing will continue to gradually tigh…
Morning Bites 🥉Global mined copper production declined 3.3% YoY in May, vs. the drop of 4.4% YoY in April, the ICSG reports. Overall, in 5mo26, global copper output decreased 1.9% YoY. The main contributors to the production slowdown were Indonesia and Chile, where mined production declined 38.0% and 8.8% YoY, respectively, affected by major accidents in 2025 and declining ore grades Meanwhile, global apparent copp…
Morning Bites 🚘EU + UK passenger car registrations rose 13% YoY in June, accelerating from the 4% YoY gain in May, per ACEA data. The result was broadly in-line with preliminary estimates, although volumes remained 6% lower than the pre-Covid level (June 2019). Specifically, local ICE vehicles (with catalytic converters) sales increased 4% YoY, while BEV registrations jumped 55% YoY last month We believe that tight…
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @metalswire. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@omyinvestments · 212,613
Telegram ranks this channel #95 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 11 August 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Metals Wire” (@metalswire), 686 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/metalswire.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.