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4 results for “metal detecting finds” in Markets
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. · Why did central banks store gold abroad in the first place? Proximity to trading and settlement centres. Gold held at the Bank of England or the New York Fed could be lent, swapped…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 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 · 17 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 · 15 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 · 17 min read
