Metals Market Overview

The price of gold and silver is controlled by the powers of demand and supply; investors choose to buy these precious metals for a number of reasons and most of all in order to diversify their assets and to rush to quality in the time of economic recession and other financial crisis. Precious metals have endured the ability to sustain their worth over time when a national currency might be losing its value. Gold is generally viewed to be a commodity that objectively reflects overall market changes and the stability of the financial world.

As with Forex trading, investors take short or long positions of the metals’ prices. Kindly note that spot trading is accessible 23 hours. IMF, Central banks, and other governmental organizations have a significant role in influencing the price of gold as they hold about 19% of the world’s gold reserves. Fund managers, whole sale dealers, private investors and speculators constitute to the rest of the market players. Trading in spot metals has become in high demand recently due to various factors such as market volatility which is caused by real time news and events, both financial and economic factors which are still the strongest influences affecting commodity trading. UnityStocks offers CFDs on spot metals in USD only.