I'll tweet out some of the highlights from the report for those too lazy to download it.
Above: total stock of #gold above ground is about 209,000t.
Below, the value of this stock.
Note that there are substantial quantities of OTC #gold derivative positions that are not included in this total as this information is not readily or reliably available.
I find this graphic to be very useful when setting the scene about #gold demand.
It demonstrates the diversity of demand and shows the relative strength of the categories (10-year averages).
And this grpahic shows the diversity of supply.
(not the bubbles are only approximately scaled - we couldn't get Europe into any sensible sized bubble as it's production is so tiny).
Finally, #gold's proportion of Global Central Bank reserves is shown on this graphic.
Our #gold primers are a growing source of background information on the gold market and can be accessed on Goldhub here:
Spot #gold hit another all-time high of about $2,573/oz this morning in European trading following yesterday's move to another record high following the ECB rate cut and US PPI.
Spot #gold is around $2,567/oz just after noon in the UK.
US dollar weakness has helped #gold move higher, but gold in euros is also at an all-time-high, so gold is outperforming a weak USD.
Looking at open interest changes on the Comex #gold futures market, it seems very likely that short term speculators have been responsible for the move higher in gold over the past two days.
This chart shows the international gold price denominated in CNY compared to the domestic price of the 9999 contract on the Shanghai gold exchange.
This divergence is unusual.
Gold trading on the Shanghai #Gold Exchange has moved to a large premium to the international gold price. We've seen premiums before, but the current percentage premium is unprecedented.
Trading volumes of the SGE 9999 #gold contract are nothing out of the ordinary, so at first glance there is nothing to see here...
Putting this another way, if all the sales from the CBT have been to fulfill demand for gold domestically, then retail investment demand for #gold has exploded in Turkey.
Here is quarterly #gold bar and coin demand from our #GDT data series.
Q1-2023 saw strong demand of about 50t...
The implication is that in April alone 80t of #gold was bought in Turkey.
Turkish investors have turned to #gold to protect then from high inflation and the prospect of currency depreciation.
We've (obviously) noticed the divergence between #gold and the TIPS yield as its been going on for a while.
I beleive that this relationship, which has worked very well since the run-up to the GFC may have fundamentally changed...