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8 results for “metal detecting finds” in Markets
Markets · 18 August 2026
The Vault Beneath the City
…n earth, moved between anonymous compartments by a handful of porters who never touch the metal with bare hands. This is how sovereign gold is actually stored, audited and, occasionally, brought home. · The Bank of England holds roughly 400,000 bars for around 100 account holders…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 17 August 2026
Paper Gold: What You Own When You Do Not Own Bars
Most of the world's gold exposure is a contract, not a metal. Futures, unallocated accounts and exchange-traded funds each promise gold in a different way — and the differences only become visible when the market stops working. · Paper gold is n…
Ingrid Sørensen · 23 min read
Markets · 8 September 2026
The Real-Rate Trade: Why Gold Moves When Bond Yields Do
…ped behaving — and the argument about why has become the most consequential debate in the metal's market. · Gold pays no coupon, so its main competitor is the inflation-adjusted yield on a government bond — the classic opportunity-cost argument. · From roughly 2005 to 2021 the go…
Ingrid Sørensen · 25 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…s official institutions were net sellers of bullion, and the policy consensus treated the metal as a museum piece. Then, quietly, the world's reserve managers reversed. The reasons are less about inflation than about the plumbing of settlement. · Official-sector selling in the 19…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
Markets · 11 September 2026
The Last Audit: What We Actually Know About the World's Official Gold
…hat physically verifies the aggregate figure. · A reported reserve number is a composite: metal at home, metal at foreign custodians, and metal out on lease or swap. Each layer has a different evidentiary standard. · The last full physical audit of the United States gold stock wa…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
…interacts with sustained official-sector buying, tightening the free float of deliverable metal. · Reserve managers accept gold's zero yield as the price of an asset that cannot be frozen, sanctioned or defaulted on by another government. · Vault capacity, not political will, is…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…· Bar formats differ between markets — 400 oz in London, kilobars in Asia — so relocating metal often means re-casting it, not just flying it. · When freight and re-casting capacity are constrained, the London–New York spread widens; the dislocation is a logistics signal, not a m…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…, and a margin. On small denominations that stack can be a double-digit percentage of the metal value. · What is the EFP and why do traders watch it? The exchange for physical spread is the price difference between COMEX futures and loco London spot. It is normally a small, stabl…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
