Business returns from gold price fixing and bullion trading on the interwar London market

Anthony John Arnold

Business History, 2016, vol. 58, issue 2, 283-308

Abstract: From September 1919, the world price of gold was 'fixed' daily in London by a small group of licensed traders. The arrangement was not ideal, as it advantaged the traders concerned, but it was seen by the Bank of England at the time as critical to British economy recovery and to the maintenance of London's position as a world trading centre. This article examines the available archival evidence on whether direct knowledge of the workings of the mechanism enabled Mocatta and Goldsmid, traders central to the operations of the 'gold fix', to earn unusually high profits across the interwar period.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2015.1083012

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