Precious metals · Macro · ASX
THE VAULT BRIEF
the flows the headlines miss

Weekly precious-metals intelligence

The flows the headlines miss.

Each week we track what central banks, big funds and the world’s exchanges are actually doing with gold, silver & platinum — plus sharp coverage of ASX precious-metals companies. In plain English.

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What you get every week

Six sections. Same structure. Skimmable in four minutes.

THE TAPE

What gold, silver and platinum did this week — and the real reason, not the lazy headline.

FLASHPOINTS

The geopolitics and macro tensions most likely to move metals in the week ahead.

HIDDEN FLOWS

The data the news ignores: central-bank buying, ETF flows, COMEX positioning, Shanghai demand.

THE RESERVE LEDGER

A running tally of which central banks are stacking gold — and which are quietly selling.

ASX SPOTLIGHT

One Australian precious-metals company per issue: what it does, what to watch.

THE TAKE

The one thing that matters — and what to keep an eye on next. Four minutes, done.

Why now

Central banks are buying gold at the fastest pace in modern history.

Most of it is buried in PDFs and filings the news never opens. We read them so you don’t have to.

244t
central-bank gold bought in Q1 2026
~US$37bn
record quarterly spend
89%
of central banks plan to buy more

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