On June 25, Universal Gold Group fell 6.23% in regular trading, trading at HKD 7.54/share, with turnover of HKD 45.57 million.

On the news front, the Federal Reserve's new chairman Kevin Warsh deleted rate cut forward guidance at the June FOMC meeting, with the dot plot indicating that a majority of officials support a rate hike within the year. The explicitly hawkish policy stance pushed the US Dollar Index to a one-year high, while COMEX gold continued to slide below the USD 4,200/oz level, placing sustained pressure across the precious metals sector. Peer stocks broadly declined, with CMOC falling 4.3% and MMG dropping 4.95%.

Higher interest rate expectations raise the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets like gold, directly suppressing gold prices and weighing on upstream mining equities. Universal Gold Group is an investment holding company principally engaged in mining, ore processing, and the sale of concentrate products including gold bullion, gold concentrate, and copper concentrate, with operations in China and the Solomon Islands.

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