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What are our friends outside of the USA paying for an ounce of gold in local currency?

What are the premiums?
 
What are our friends outside of the USA paying for an ounce of gold in local currency?

What are the premiums?
It depends the size of the bar. As fas as 10oz goes, right now:

Hong Kong
Bid 2985 Ask 3015

Sidney
Bid 2984 Ask 3025

Zurich
Bid 2984 Ask 3025

You can check also Singapore Dubai London and New York live.


There are no premiums because of the arbitrage.
 
I meant in local currency. There is no way 1 oz of gold is $3025 AUD.
 
I meant in local currency. There is no way 1 oz of gold is $3025 AUD.

In local currency is not helpful because if you get different prices in different local currencies then you have to convert into $ in order to make the price comparison possible.

If you click on the link to the ABX you see that all those prices that I mentioned are in US$ - which is helpful because this way you can directly compare different local markets.


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There is no way 1 oz of gold is $3025 AUD.
You right. It is US$3025/oz for a 10oz gold bar.
But the 1oz price of a 1kg bar is different.
The 1oz price of a wholesale 10kg gold bar is also different.

You can look it by yourself where it says "Live Precious Metals Pricing".
 
I am just inferring that as an American, if I went to Sydney and saw the numbers plus tax I might have a coniption projecting Aussie citizenship.
 
What are our friends outside of the USA paying for an ounce of gold in local currency?

What are the premiums?

I think you were referring to purchasing a 1oz gold coin at a local coin shop, not about buying allocated/vaulted gold, so in some way I think I hijacked your thread.

As far as buying allocated gold through the ABX, it looks like there are no premiums based on geography because ABX is a centralized exchange thus enabling arbitrage.

It would be interesting to see whether there are different prices for allocated/vaulted gold. Generally allocated gold get bought at spot, so there should be no price difference between allocated gold in USA, Switzerland or Brazil, but I'm not sure.
Surely there are exceptions - e.g. in China.
 
We get or used to get a lot of Canadian tourists in South Florida and they were notoriously cheap, low tippers. They also preferred cheap housing. I can imagine that their dollar is worth only 69 cents here, so they were paying almost 1/3 more for everything.
 
Silver Gold Bull quotes in foreign currency.



 
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