How the Spot Gold Price Is Set and Who Sets It
The spot gold price emerges from a hybrid of London benchmark auctions and electronic futures trading, with central banks and bullion banks playing key roles.
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The spot gold price emerges from a hybrid of London benchmark auctions and electronic futures trading, with central banks and bullion banks playing key roles.
The LBMA Gold Price auction is a twice-daily benchmark-setting process that differs fundamentally from the real-time spot price traded on exchanges.
Gold trades at three different price levels: spot, futures, and physical. Each serves a distinct market and is influenced by different factors.
The LBMA Gold Price auction is a twice-daily benchmark-setting process, distinct from the continuously fluctuating spot price of gold.
Twice a day, a short electronic auction produces the number that prices most of the world's physical gold. Here is how it works.