Insights: Posts from April 2020

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Tomorrow (25th April) is World Malaria Day, a day the World Gold Council has often marked as a consequence of the important link between its member companies and the fight against the disease.

Posted 3 years 6 months ago

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The UK is home for me, and the subject of COVID-19 diagnostics has never been far away from the front pages. The UK government has repeatedly championed the important role antibody testing will play in getting our lives back to normal... However, achieving this has turned out to be far from straight forward.

Posted 3 years 6 months ago

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In March, the SHAUPM rose by 1.4% while LBMA Gold Price AM fell slightly as the RMB weakened relative to the USD. Although new COVID-19 infections in China remained near zero in March, concerns for the pandemic’s aftermath on the domestic economy linger.

Posted 3 years 6 months ago

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To curb the spread of COVID-19, the global restrictions have impacted the global gold supply chain, from production to refining. These supply-chain disruptions have impacted both bullion and gold dore’ imports into India.

Posted 3 years 6 months ago

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In this podcast, Krishan Gopaul, of our research team, discusses gold with Andrew Monk from VSA Capital.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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Today we released our analysis on gold-backed ETF flows for the first quarter of 2020, as well as the month of March.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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Recent indications suggest that the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China appears to be virtually contained. Even though there are still new imported infection cases, China’s reported local infections have remained near zero for a significant period.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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Read these daily gold market updates by John Reade on Twitter.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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In this blog post, read a collection of Tweets from John Reade on gold.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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In this webinar, our Chief Market Strategist, John Reade and Chief Investment Strategist at State Street Global Advisors, Michael Arone, discuss the global impact of COVID-19 and whether gold can help manage this unprecedented market volatility.

Topics include:

• The effect of government policies to control the pandemic on the global economy
• Impact of liquidations, fight-to-quality and monetary policy on gold
• Outlook for the remainder of 2020

Posted 3 years 7 months ago

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In February, central banks bought a net 36 tonnes (t) of gold, almost a third higher than January’s net purchases, but 52% lower y-o-y. This brings y-t-d net purchases to 64.5t, 44% lower than the 116.1t of net purchases over the first two months of 2019.

Posted 3 years 7 months ago