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4 results for “central bank reserves” in Markets
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
…y. · Repatriation is driven less by distrust of custodians than by the demonstration that reserves can be immobilised. · Bringing gold home imposes real costs: vault construction, insurance, audit and lost liquidity. · The trend interacts with sustained official-sector buying, ti…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…by emerging-market reserve managers rebuilding a domestically held, unencumbered share of reserves. · Gold's appeal to a reserve manager is that it carries no counterparty: it cannot be frozen by the issuer of another country's liability. · Central banks are price-insensitive, sl…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…Shanghai, Mumbai and Istanbul are logistics and policy signals, not arbitrage failures. · Central banks and ETF flows move the price in opposite directions on different clocks: reserves are slow and price-insensitive, funds are fast and price-chasing. · Is there one official gold…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…y means specific numbered bars belong to you; unallocated means you are a creditor of the bank, and the difference only becomes visible in a crisis. · A bar's value depends on an unbroken custody record; once it leaves the accredited chain it must usually be re-refined before it…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
