Gold has a way of returning to the conversation just when people start believing finance has fully modernised itself. A market can spend months obsessing over technology shares, central bank speeches, or the latest speculation dressed up as strategy, and then some geopolitical shock or inflation scare arrives and the old metal is suddenly back at the centre of attention. It is not nostalgia. Gold still occupies a peculiar place in market thinking, half commodity, half psychological refuge. That position was earned over centuries, but it survives because the reasons for owning or watching gold never quite disappear. ... (full story)