Gold is trading near $4,500 an ounce as of mid-2026, below the year-end targets most major banks set when the market still expected the US Federal Reserve to cut. The desks that move size — among them the investment banks…
Two prices sit behind any quote on a 1 kg gold bar in Dubai. One is the spot reference per kilogram — a market input anyone can read. The other is a premium, set by the refiner, the bar format,…
In Dubai, most search results for gold investment lead to bank gold accounts. These are gold savings and accumulation products run by the major UAE banks. A gold account and a bar of allocated physical bullion are different forms of…
Inside the US, the physical gold market is mature and largely self-contained. Asahi Refining produces LBMA Good Delivery bars from its Salt Lake City facility, and A-Mark Precious Metals moves them through the wholesale book downstream. COMEX sits over both…
Most large-bar gold in the world settles in London. Trading runs over-the-counter through bilateral relationships between LBMA members, anchored by a small number of vaults inside the M25 perimeter. Around 9,300 tonnes of gold sit in those vaults as of…
Across the Indian gold stack the procurement question runs on constraints, not on what is available. Sovereign Gold Bonds, NBFC gold loans, domestic hallmarked bars, IIBX-traded physical, and offshore allocated bullion are the known channels. The filters that separate them…