Chart 3: The corrosive impact of elevated geopolitical risk is visible across bond markets
Chart 3: The corrosive impact of elevated geopolitical risk is visible across bond markets
10-year Treasury bond yield estimated term premia and G7 geopolitical risk score*
Sources: Bloomberg, World Gold Council; Disclaimer
*Data from Q1 2022 to Q4 2025. Term premia based on ACM model for respective countries. G7 geopolitical risk score is a composite of GeoQuant’s political risk scores for the G7 compiled by Bloomberg.
Chart 5: Gold is regaining its share of official foreign exchange reserves
Chart 5: Gold is regaining its share of official foreign exchange reserves
Gold, US dollar, euro, yen claims as a share of official foreign exchange reserves*
Sources: Bloomberg, Metals Focus, World Gold Council; Disclaimer
*Data from January 1990 to 31 December 2025. IMF COFER data aggregates central banks’ and monetary authority reserve holdings by currency. Metals Focus cumulative unreported central bank holdings added to reported IMF holdings which are reported separately to COFER data.
Chart 6: Recycling has recently become less responsive to price changes
Chart 6: Recycling has recently become less responsive to price changes
Cumulative tonnage demand for US and European gold ETFs and bar and coin demand*
Sources: ICE Benchmark Administration, Metals Focus, World Gold Council; Disclaimer
*Data from Q1 2000 to Q4 2025. Plot shows the relationship between the q/q % change in spot gold in US$/oz vs the change in recycling. The sample is divided into pre-Q2 2022 and post Q2 2022. 4.8x and 1.6x shows the associated change in tonnes for a 1% change in the gold price. The relationship holds whether we look at the level of recycling or the q/q change in recycling. It also holds, but with a smaller change in slope (3.6x) if we control for the global level of unemployment (Proxy for distress – the need to sell) and the median year-ahead forecast for gold (motivation to hold on to gold) from contributors to Bloomberg Commodity Forecasts.