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4 results for “LBMA Good Delivery” in Markets
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…nter market and COMEX futures, with the two tethered by the EFP spread. · The twice-daily LBMA auction is a benchmark-setting mechanism for contract settlement, not the market itself. · Regional premiums in Shanghai, Mumbai and Istanbul are logistics and policy signals, not arbit…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…y? The set of accredited refiners, approved vaults and recognised carriers within which a Good Delivery bar can move without losing its status. Metal that leaves the chain — held privately, for example — can re-enter, but normally only after assay or re-refining, because the guar…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
…adily deliverable bars. · The logistics of moving gold are unglamorous and unforgiving. A Good Delivery bar weighs about twelve and a half kilograms, and a hundred tonnes of them is eight thousand bars — a volume that would fit comfortably in a modest living room and a mass that…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…pean sales 2010 Official sector turns net buyer for the first time in a generation 400 oz Good Delivery bar size in which reserves are almost always held · The selling era, and why it was orderly · The 1990s disposals are often recalled as a collective loss of faith. The record i…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
