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Due to wartime emergencies and government controls, the London gold fixing was suspended between 1939 and 1954, when the London gold market was closed. On 21 January 1980 the gold fixing reached the price of $850, a figure not surpassed until 3 January 2008 when a new record of $865.35 per troy ounce was set in the a.m. fixing.
May 20 marked an all-time high price for gold, at a spot price of $2,435.96 per ounce. Gold futures were higher at $2,438.50. Spot silver also rose to $32.17, an over 11-year high.
Gold prices (US$ per troy ounce), in nominal US$ and inflation adjusted US$ from 1914 onward. Price of gold 1915–2022 Gold price history in 1960–2014 Gold price per gram between Jan 1971 and Jan 2012. The graph shows nominal price in US dollars, the price in 1971 and 2011 US dollars.
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The HUI-gold ratio is an expression which compares the relative quantities of the NYSE Gold BUGS Index and the price of gold. The ratio is calculated by dividing the value of the NYSE Gold BUGS Index by the price of gold. [5] Investors use the HUI-gold ratio to illustrate the ever-shifting relative strength of the gold stocks versus gold. [6]
Silver often tracks the gold price due to store of value demands, although the ratio can vary. The crustal ratio of silver to gold is 17.5:1. [7] The gold/silver price ratio is often analyzed by traders, investors, and buyers. [8] The gold/silver ratio is the oldest continuously tracked exchange rate in history. [9]
This holds even more so with stocks, [2] oil [3] and gold. [4] This price volatility appears to occur in cycles and is caused by a myriad of factors. The chart to the right is an attempt to overlay the prices of housing, stocks, oil and gold by normalizing the price streams. Normalizing is achieved by applying a discounting formula which ...
English: This chart shows the nominal price of gold along with the price in 1971 and 2011 dollars (adjusted based on the consumer price index). The historical gold price was obtained from www.igolder.com; CPI was obtained from www.rateinflation.com. The data is in section Chart Data.