Data Sources

The live prices on the price pages, charts and ticker come from commercial market data feeds that track the main global exchanges and over-the-counter markets. A second feed takes over if the first one stops updating.

Operates the electronic auction that sets the LBMA Gold Price (10:30 AM and 3:00 PM London time) and the LBMA Silver Price (noon London time). We pull both fixings directly from ICE's published feed.

License: ICE publishes the benchmark fixings under terms of use. We display the published values with attribution.

The European Central Bank's reference exchange rates, published once each working day. Used to show metal prices in other currencies and to convert MCX (INR), GFEX (CNY) and the Shanghai Gold Exchange's daily closing prices into US dollars. The UAE dirham and Saudi riyal are pegged to the dollar, so those two use their fixed rates. Live Shanghai Gold Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange quotes are converted with a live dollar/yuan rate that arrives with the Shanghai price data.

License: The ECB publishes its reference rates for information purposes.

Coin and bar prices on the bullion comparison are collected from the public product pages of online bullion dealers, then set against the live spot price to work out each product's premium. Quotes more than a week old are left out.

The Commodity Exchange (COMEX), part of CME Group, is the world's primary venue for precious-metals futures. We pull daily warehouse stock reports (registered, eligible, total) per depository, plus settlement prices and open interest.

License: CME Group data is published for public reporting. We show the daily figures as CME reports them.

The US futures market regulator publishes the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report breaking down futures positioning by trader category. We pull the disaggregated report for all major COMEX metals.

License: CFTC COT data is a public US-government data product released every Friday for Tuesday positions.

The principal global trade body for OTC gold and silver. We pull monthly London vault holdings (commercial + Bank of England), the twice-daily LBMA Gold Price auction, and daily London clearing statistics.

License: LBMA vault and clearing data are published as monthly and daily reports. We pull within hours of LBMA publication and surface the position date alongside the publication date.

The world's largest physical gold spot market by volume. We track Au99.99 (24-karat 1kg benchmark), Au(T+D) (deferred-delivery gold), and Ag(T+D) (deferred-delivery silver) prices, plus weekly gold withdrawal data.

License: SGE publishes intraday and closing prices to its market data feed. We pull during SGE trading hours and surface a clear last-updated timestamp on every page.

China's primary venue for base-metals futures trading. We pull weekly warehouse warrant stocks per metal per warehouse, plus daily futures settlement prices, open interest, and trading volume.

License: SHFE publishes daily settlement and weekly warrant stock reports. We mirror the per-warehouse breakdown rather than collapsing to a single network-wide total.

China's newest commodity futures exchange and the leading global venue for battery-grade lithium carbonate futures, plus industrial silicon and polysilicon contracts. We pull daily settlement prices and open interest.

License: GFEX publishes daily settlement prices to its market data feed. We pull and normalize for the global EV battery materials view.

India's largest commodity futures exchange. We pull gold and silver futures settlement prices alongside spot equivalents, surfaced as INR per 10 grams (gold) and INR per kilogram (silver), the local convention.

License: MCX publishes intraday and end-of-day data via market data partners. We pull and convert to INR per 10g (gold) / INR per kg (silver) for the Indian market.