Ongoing economic and employment uncertainty around COVID-19, trade tensions and continued central bank asset purchasing, are driving gold prices and gold ETF inflows globally even as markets begin to steady.
Despite this month's performance, gold investment demand has been the story of the year.
Gold markets have benefited from the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic, but positive news around vaccines dampened enthusiasm for the commodity in November, market observers said during an industry event.
Global gold-backed exchange-traded funds marked their largest annual inflow of the precious metal on record, in dollar terms, just five months into the...