Goldhub blog: Posts from April 2020
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Testing times – the ups and downs of COVID-19 rapid diagnostics
The UK is home for me, and the subject of COVID-19 diagnostics has never been far away from the front pages. The UK government has repeatedly championed the important role antibody testing will play in getting our lives back to normal... However, achieving this has turned out to be far from straight forward.
China’s gold market in March: reviving gradually
In March, the SHAUPM rose by 1.4% while LBMA Gold Price AM fell slightly as the RMB weakened relative to the USD. Although new COVID-19 infections in China remained near zero in March, concerns for the pandemic’s aftermath on the domestic economy linger.
Supply-chain disruptions impact on Indian gold market
To curb the spread of COVID-19, the global restrictions have impacted the global gold supply chain, from production to refining. These supply-chain disruptions have impacted both bullion and gold dore’ imports into India.
World Gold Council
Market development organisation
VSA Capital podcast with Krishan Gopaul
In this podcast, Krishan Gopaul, of our research team, discusses gold with Andrew Monk from VSA Capital.
Gold ETF assets realised their largest ever quarterly gain in Q1 2020
Today we released our analysis on gold-backed ETF flows for the first quarter of 2020, as well as the month of March.
A general look at China and its gold market in wake of COVID-19
Recent indications suggest that the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China appears to be virtually contained. Even though there are still new imported infection cases, China’s reported local infections have remained near zero for a significant period.
On Twitter: Gold market updates
Read these daily gold market updates by John Reade on Twitter.
On Twitter: A week in review
In this blog post, read a collection of Tweets from John Reade on gold.
World Gold Council
Market development organisation
Webinar: Is this the right time for gold?
In this webinar, our Chief Market Strategist, John Reade and Chief Investment Strategist at State Street Global Advisors, Michael Arone, discuss the global impact of COVID-19 and whether gold can help manage this unprecedented market volatility.
Topics include:
- The effect of government policies to control the pandemic on the global economy
- Impact of liquidations, fight-to-quality and monetary policy on gold
- Outlook for the remainder of 2020
Central banks demand creeps higher in February
In February, central banks bought a net 36 tonnes (t) of gold, almost a third higher than January’s net purchases, but 52% lower y-o-y. This brings y-t-d net purchases to 64.5t, 44% lower than the 116.1t of net purchases over the first two months of 2019.