{"id":3179,"date":"2025-11-27T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:17:17","slug":"the-yield-from-renting-gold-bars-gold-carry-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/the-yield-from-renting-gold-bars-gold-carry-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;yield&#8221; from renting gold bars (gold carry trade)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nThe price of gold continues to break historical records in 2025 and wealthy investors have found a new way to make use of their bars: they \u201crent\u201d them to jewelers and manufacturing companies, earning returns without selling a single gram.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nUntil recently, gold was considered the ultimate \u201cdead\u201d capital: safe, stable, but with no return. But that has changed. Gold leasing platforms are booming and wealthy individuals are lining up to turn their gold into a passive income tool.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nInvestors are not just waiting for gold to reach $5,000 an ounce, they want a return here and now. And gold leasing provides it. And given that investors want to hold gold, regardless of the price. Leasing is the next step.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<strong>How does the \u201cgold carry trade\u201d work?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe process is similar to a loan \u2014 except that the loan is made in ounces of gold, not in cash:\r\n\r\n \r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n \t<li>The investor delivers the bars to the platform.<\/li>\r\n \r\n \t<li>The platform lends them to jewelers, wholesalers, and manufacturers.<\/li>\r\n \r\n \t<li>The jewelers use the gold in production.<\/li>\r\n \r\n \t<li>At the end of the period, they either return the same amount of gold or renew the lease.<\/li>\r\n \r\n \t<li>The investor earns interest in gold, not in dollars.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n \r\n\r\nFor borrowers, the benefit is enormous: they don\u2019t have to take out a bank loan, nor worry about price fluctuations. Finally, they eliminate the risk of production costs.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of gold continues to break historical records in 2025 and wealthy investors have found a new way to make use of their bars: they \u201crent\u201d them to jewelers and manufacturing companies, earning returns without selling a single gram. Until recently, gold was considered the ultimate \u201cdead\u201d capital: safe, stable, but with no return. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1067,82,1068,1069,191],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment-destinations","tag-carry-trade","tag-gold","tag-gold-bars","tag-gold-carry-trade","tag-yield"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trusteconomics.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}