Gold is a globally traded precious metal investors use for portfolio diversification, as a potential inflation hedge, and as a store of value during uncertaint…
On August 15, 1971, President Nixon unilaterally ended the direct convertibility of the US dollar into gold, ending the Bretton Woods system that had pegged the dollar t…
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian Revolution and years of high US inflation and oil-price shocks drove gold to approximately $850/oz in January 1980 -- a r…
A group of European central banks signed the Washington Agreement on Gold in September 1999, agreeing to limit collective gold sales to less than 400 tonnes a year, afte…
Gold initially fell alongside other assets in late 2008 as investors sold broadly for liquidity, then rallied as central banks slashed rates toward zero and launched qua…
The European sovereign-debt crisis and the August 2011 downgrade of the US credit rating by S&P drove gold to a then-record price near $1,921/oz in September 2011, cappi…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus, and near-zero interest rates, gold reached a then-record price near $2,067/oz in August 2020, ref…
Despite the fastest Federal Reserve rate-hiking cycle in decades, central banks bought approximately 1,136 tonnes in 2022, ~1,037 tonnes in 2023, and a record 1,092.4 to…
Gold rose more than 50% during 2025 -- its largest calendar-year percentage gain since 1979 -- crossing $4,000/oz for the first time in October 2025. The World Gold Coun…
The LBMA (PM) gold price averaged a record US$4,873/oz for Q1 2026, per the World Gold Council. Total Q1 demand including OTC reached 1,231 tonnes (+2% y/y). Central-ban…
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