Gold
All that glisters: precious metal volumes surge on FX venues
Gold and silver liquidity on foreign exchange trading platforms improves as more dealers link precious metals with e-FX
During a health crisis should you invest in gold or oil?
Employing advanced econometric models, this paper analyzes the volatility behavior of gold and oil prices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Low-vol gold rush points to further upside
Options markets see no scramble to chase metal higher despite 43% year-to-date rally
US banks tighten grip on gold shorts
Open interest in Comex gold futures sold by banks up 54% between December and August
Why flows now rival fundamentals
Geography and market sentiment are having profound impacts on price action, says LMAX’s head of FX data
Hybrids go for gold
Spot gold surge sees investors eye dual digitals on new highs
Judy Shelton on gold, tariffs and where the Fed went wrong
Potential successor to Jerome Powell makes the case for cutting rates and tamping down dollar volatility
Tariff whiplash fuels clearing volumes at major CCPs
Record OCC volumes and strong gains at CME and Eurex mark April’s tariff-driven trading spike
Trump’s tariff threats stress London gold market
Cost of funding customer positions has shot up 10,000% as deliverable supplies shift to New York
Quants mine gold for new market-making model
Novel approach to modelling cointegrated assets could be applied to FX and potentially even corporate bond pricing
Market-making in spot precious metals
A market-making framework is extended to account for metal markets’ liquidity constraints
Zero-day hedging takes root in new asset classes
Option users move beyond equity indexes in search of cheaper, sharper hedging tools
Assessing the potential for asset diversification: an analysis of Brazilian stock indexes, Bitcoin, gold, crude oil and exchange rates
The authors investigate the Islamic and conventional stock indexes for Bitcoin, crude oil and gold in Brazil.
HSBC shifts part of US precious metal trades to UK
US subsidiary transfers all related market risk to headquarters
Sovereign bonds top choice for IM collateral
Drive towards higher interest-earning assets strongest at CME and LCH among top CCPs
UBS precious metals team shines amid market turmoil
Global uncertainty always adds allure to precious metals, putting a premium on the long-standing relationships and cutting-edge technology of the UBS precious metals team
Commercial bank cash grows more popular for initial margin
Shift driven by Ice Europe as CCPs diverge on preferred type of collateral
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The relationship between oil prices, global economic policy uncertainty and financial market stress
This paper introduces two models: the first analyzes the impacts of global economic policy uncertainty, gold prices and three-month US Treasury bill rates on oil prices between 1997 and 2020, and the second examines the effects of oil prices and US…