World Gold Council

In this podcast, Krishan Gopaul, of our research team, discusses gold with Andrew Monk from VSA Capital.

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

In this video, our Chief Market Strategist, John Reade, joins Chris Mellor, Head of EMEA Equity and Commodity Product Management at Invesco, to address questions raised by investors around the potential benefits of gold.

Watch today's Gold Demand Trends webinar, where we discussed the drivers of gold demand from Q4 and FY 2019.

 

On Friday afternoon, the European Central Bank announced that its 20-year old Central Bank Gold Agreement was no longer necessary, while confirming that: “Gold remains an important element of monetary reserves” – we couldn’t agree more.

Gold is valuable and rare. Large amounts of rock need to be mined and processed to produce an ounce of gold and this uses significant amounts of energy.