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5 Signs Gold Is Being Repriced

3 Aug 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, Mark Moss argues that gold (and silver) are undergoing a rapid repricing driven by physical demand outpacing paper markets. He outlines five concrete signposts to watch for accelerating repricing: (1) the Shanghai premium – the price of physically‑settled gold and silver in Shanghai trading well above the London/COMEX paper price, indicating a pull from physical markets; (2) Bank of England quantitative easing and gold lease rates, which reveal strain when the world’s deepest gold market must borrow gold to meet demand; (3) quarterly central‑bank purchases that convert Treasury holdings into gold, signaling a conversion of reserves; (4) Hong Kong’s vault build‑out targeting 2,000 tons of storage within three years, providing the infrastructure for larger physical flows; and (5) Chinese banks shutting down paper‑gold products and steering customers toward physical holdings, consolidating the market. When these indicators converge, Moss predicts the repricing will accelerate across precious‑metal markets.

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Your life is supposed to get easier and not harder. Now, if you think this repricing stops at gold, well, hang on, because it's already starting to jump into all the other markets. In February, we saw the price of silver in Shanghai trade 29% over the COMEX price. U.S. dealers were scrambling to get the silver. Physical went up as much as $8 to $17 an ounce over the paper spot price, because when the physical price the paper price disagree, guess which one wins out? The physical, as long as people are demanding it. So here's what I'm actually watching as all this plays out. Like I said, we've been talking about this for years. So here's the signposts that I'm watching. There's 5 things that I'm watching. Okay. Number 1, the Shanghai premium over the London price. Okay. As I said, the Shanghai premium, which is physically settled, over the London price, which is paper. Okay. That's the pull. That's pulling things along. Number 2, I want to look at the Bank of England QE and the lease rates that they have. All right? That's the strain. When the Bank of England, the largest, the deepest gold market in the world, starts running out, not able to fill orders, having to borrow gold to fill it, OK, that's the strain on the system. Third, I want to watch central bank purchases every single quarter. That's the conversion, right? The central banks are not trading. They're converting the Treasuries into gold. We want to watch that. Keep an eye on that. We will see number 4, Hong Kong's vault buildout, right? So as they said, they want to get to 2,000-ton target within 3 years. This is the infrastructure for all this to happen. And then, of course, number 5, we want to see more Chinese banks closing the paper gold products and pushing people back into the physical. That's the consolidation of the system. So when all of these things start moving together, you're watching the repricing accelerate in real time.