Gold insights

China's paper gold shutdown affects personal Shanghai Gold Exchange access through banks. See what is closing, what remains open, and the price impact.

UAE gold tax explained: when investment bullion is zero-rated, when 5% VAT applies, how making charges work, and what tourists and sellers should check.

India gold tax explained for 2026: 3% GST on jewelry transaction value, 15% import duty, capital-gains holding periods, and records to keep.

Build a live India gold-rate app from INR per-gram 24K and 22K prices, with server-side caching, Indian number formatting, GST estimates, and clear limits.

Build a gold jewelry price calculator from live per-gram karat prices, with exact decimal math, caching, margins, and clear valuation limits.

Why gold fell as the Iran war pushed oil, inflation, rates, and the dollar higher, then triggered a crowded trade to unwind.

Interest rates affect gold through real yields, the dollar, and changing expectations. Why a rate decision can move gold in either direction.

Build a reproducible local-currency gold backtest from settled XAU/USD bars and dated FX observations, without inserting future rates into historical rows.

The price of a gold bar is never spot. We measured the live premium retail buyers pay over the world price across major Asian markets, from near-zero in China to more than 13% in India, and traced where each markup comes from.

Gold has one world price and about two hundred different tax treatments. A survey of how major economies tax investment gold, plus the wave of 2024–2026 changes: India's whipsawing import duty, Washington's repeal, China's VAT reform, and Vietnam's first-ever bullion tax.

Every major bank cut its 2026 gold target this year. The July cluster sits at $4,300–$4,900, close to spot, with a $3,500 bear case and a $6,000 bull outlier. Here is the consensus, the drivers behind it, and how to read what options and prediction markets are pricing in real time.

A full-day cross-venue scan found zero executable arbitrage across Kalshi, Polymarket, and GLD options; the closest miss was 2.3 cents from free money.

We priced all 24 live Polymarket gold contracts against spot and realized volatility. The monthly ladder trades like an options desk; the longshots trade like a lottery counter, and the premium grows with distance.

The real-time gold streaming questions that come up on Reddit, answered: whether a gold WebSocket exists, how the goldprice.dev XAU and XAG tick stream works end to end, and which other APIs actually offer one (most metals APIs just poll).

The gold-price-API errors developers hit on Stack Overflow, fixed: 401 auth, 400 invalid_symbol, 429 rate limits, CORS from the browser, reading the response, and pulling historical data.

The gold-price-API questions that come up on Reddit, answered straight: free tier, update frequency, rate limits, auth, where the number comes from, commercial use, and whether it's good enough to build on.

What the 2023–2026 research actually says about forecasting gold: the model that worked for a decade, why it broke, and how to test any claim yourself.

Pull daily OHLC history from the goldprice.dev API and run a simple moving-average crossover backtest in Python to evaluate a gold trading strategy.

Why sovereign reserve managers have been accumulating gold at record pace, and the mechanics of how that demand affects prices.

Pull gold and silver spot prices in a single async call, divide them, and display the ratio with a working JavaScript example.

How to convert a USD per troy ounce gold price into other currencies and per-gram units, with a working JavaScript example.

Read per-source prices from the API response, compute the spread in basis points, and flag when sources disagree beyond your tolerance threshold.

Real interest rates, the US dollar, inflation expectations, central-bank demand, and risk-off flows: the mechanisms behind gold's moves, and which ones matter most.

Add a free, configurable live gold price widget to WordPress with one iframe. Works in Gutenberg and Elementor, no API key, no plugin.

Working code for pulling the gold spot price from the API in Node.js and the browser, with proper error handling.

Dividing the gold price by copper gives one of macro's clearest early-warning signals. What the ratio measures, why it leads the economic cycle, and how to read it.

The pricing-currency mechanism and the real-rate channel explain the gold-dollar relationship, plus the conditions when it breaks down.

The evidence for gold as an inflation hedge is real but depends heavily on timeframe: here's what the data shows and a clear position on when to believe it.

Match cache TTLs to data freshness, read the X-RateLimit-* headers, back off gracefully on 429, and decide when polling beats streaming.

Add the goldprice.dev MCP server to Claude or Cursor so your agent can fetch the current gold spot price without any hand-rolled tool code.

Why gold is priced per troy ounce, how the troy system differs from the common ounce, and the exact conversions to grams and kilograms.

Bullion, ETFs, futures, and tokenized gold each give you different exposure: what each one actually is and what counterparty risk each carries.

Why two gold price feeds can show different numbers at the same instant, and what that divergence tells you about liquidity and data quality.

The three different gold prices that get conflated constantly: what each one actually represents, and when each is the right number to use.

Connect to the goldprice.dev SSE stream to receive real-time gold price updates in the browser and Node.js, with automatic reconnect handling.

A complete, production-ready Python script that polls the live spot price, checks it against a threshold, and sends a notification. Uses the REST API with retry logic and a local TTL cache.

What the gold-to-silver ratio is, how it is calculated, why traders watch it, and how to read it in context. A data-first explainer designed to stay evergreen.