Smart money is quietly accumulating gold

A summary of the most important gold news and analysis of the last week.

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Change from last week: $47.19 (1.18%)

This week’s summary of gold news and analysis.

• Goldman sees central bank demand providing a floor for gold prices [Investing]

• Why smart money is quietly accumulating gold & silver now before everyone else [FX Empire]

• John Paulson says we are in the early stages of a long-term bull market for gold [CNBC]

• Maybe central banks are gold-price sensitive after all [John Rubino]

“Which is a very good thing.”

• US dollar loosens grip on central bank reserves worldwide as gold takes over [Gulf News]

• Gold prices have tanked. Buying the dip makes sense. (archive) [WSJ]

• Central bank gold demand has ‘very long runway’ as East/West market split returns - Schroders [Kitco]

• Gold lessons from the 1970s [Daily Reckoning]

• Gold headed toward $3,500 and silver toward $50 before the next run, Chambers says [Kitco]

• Gold price forecast: UBS expects bullion to reach $5,200 by mid-2027 [Exchange Rates UK]

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Gold news from a global perspective.

• Azerbaijan's gold exports surge 30-fold in value in first half of 2026 [AzerNews]

• Cameroon: How gold worth billions escapes to Dubai [The Africa Report]

• Barrick makes Golden Triangle bet with 9.9% Kingfisher stake [Mining]

• Goldman Sachs note hints China's real gold accumulation may be much more than double official numbers [Investing Live]

• China has been buying the gold dip, and these analysts say a comeback is brewing [MarketWatch]

• Chinese banks halt retail paper gold trading: risk mitigation or price discovery? [Investing News Network]

• Is China attempting to wrest control of Gold pricing from the paper-dominated west? [FX Street]

• India gold market update: Mixed demand signals [World Gold Council]

• HK to sign gold cooperation MoU with Laos during Christopher Hui's Southeast Asian trip [The Standard]

• Watch: A record six millionth ounce pour of gold at Macraes mine [Stuff]

• Russia’s central bank sold 44 tonnes of gold in the first half of 2026 [Kitco]

• Tanzania announces significant expansion of its Gold reserves [FXStreet]

• Cash limits for physical gold bar trades proposed [Bangkok Post]

"Bank of Thailand considers caps of B1-10 million per retail customer per shop."

• Gold taxes may drive trade to Singapore, Thai association warns [The Nation

• Abu Dhabi just gave tokenized gold the regulatory stamp it needed to go mainstream [Startup Fortune]

• SJC maintains gold buyback policy as prices plunge [SGGP]

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• Tokenized gold Is a $4.4B market with no EU rulebook [Crypto News]

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