Gold bars and coins continued to hold favour with investors in several countries around the world.

Report informs of a strong third quarter that lifts gold demand to pre-pandemic levels

Gold demand defies Q2 headwinds with year-on-year recovery in first half of 2022

The World Gold Council’s latest Gold Demand Trends Report reveals gold ETFs had their strongest quarterly inflows of 269t since Q3 2020, more than reversing the 173t annual net outflow from 2021, and driven in part by the rising gold price

Demand for gold reached 1,147t in Q4 2021, its highest quarterly level since Q2 2019, and an increase of almost 50% year-on-year, according to the WGC

Net gold ETF sales were  small; when compared to the pandemic-induced buying surge of a year earlier, this was enough to place overall gold demand into a Y-O-Y decline

Jewellery and investment demand is expected to continue its post-pandemic recovery in the second half of the year

Gold investment demand fell in Q1, while value of gold jewellery purchased by consumers enjoyed a post-Covid rebound, rising to 477.4t - a 52% annual increase

Global gold demand dropped by 19% y-o-y to 892t in Q3 

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the consumer sectors of the gold market in H1 2020, with total demand dropping by 6% to 2,076t versus the same period in 2019, according to the World Gold Council’s latest Gold Demand Trends report.

Global gold demand held firm at 1,083.8t in Q1 2020, a rise of one  per cent  on the same period last year, according to the World Gold Council’s latest Gold Demand Trends report