"The Bank of Korea Joins In: Central Banks Resume Buying, ETF Inflows Rebound... Gold Prices Surge Again"
Reported by 아시아경제: “"The Bank of Korea Joins In: Central Banks Resume Buying, ETF Inflows Rebound... Gold Prices Surge Again"”. Gold settled at $4,420 an ounce on August 13, 2026 — $142.12 per gram, -1.05% on the day.
Official-sector buying or selling changes physical demand and long-term market expectations. Persistent purchases can support the market, but do not guarantee an immediate price increase. The COMEX settlement that session moved -1.05%, so the headline and the close diverge. The usual reason: an intraday move, a different currency, or a different horizon. Thirty sessions later gold traded at $4,321 an ounce, -2.24% versus the date of the report. That is an observation about the market, not a consequence of one headline.
- official reserves
- physical demand
- currency confidence
- long-term expectations
- next reserve disclosure
- net purchase volume
- geographic breadth
This World Gold brief is based on the headline and available metadata. We do not reproduce the publisher's article or add unverified details. The price on the date of the report is our own data: the daily COMEX futures settlement, converted to grams at 31.1035 g per troy ounce.