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4 results for “mine closure bond” in Markets
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
Between the vault and the buyer sits an industry of armoured vehicles, sealed cargo, bonded warehouses and insurance clauses. It rarely makes news, and it is the reason a spot price in London can diverge from a bar in New York. · Allocated custody means specific numbered bar…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…no interest? Because a reserve portfolio is insurance, not an income strategy. Government bonds pay a yield but are somebody else's liability and can be frozen, redenominated or defaulted on. Gold pays nothing and cannot be created by anyone, which is exactly the property a reser…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…f turning it into something else — a coin, a wire, a futures contract, a bar sitting in a bonded warehouse in Hong Kong. · London: the market that is not an exchange · The centre of the wholesale gold market is not a trading floor. It is a network of banks, brokers and vault oper…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
For half a century it was rational to store your gold in someone else's basement. Then the calculus of counterparty risk changed, and reserve managers started chartering aircraft. · Overseas custody w…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 min read
