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Gold ground about 6% lower in 1992, ignoring even Europe’s ERM currency crisis, as disinflation and central-bank selling defined a joyless market.
Monthly path for 1992, anchored to the real open ($ 353.00), the high in January, the low in September, and the close ($ 333.00). The dashed line marks the yearly average; intra-year movement between anchor points is illustrative.
Year-over-year, gold fell -5.67% versus its 1991 close of $ 353.00.
1992 showed just how deep the bear-market psychology ran. September brought one of the great currency crises of the century — speculators broke the pound out of Europe’s Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday — and gold’s response was to hit its low of the year around $330. A decade earlier such turmoil would have sent the metal soaring; now the money fleeing sterling went into dollars, Deutsche Marks, and bonds instead.
The explanation was the same combination that defined the whole era: inflation kept falling, real interest rates stayed attractive, and central banks kept trimming their gold reserves. With jewelry demand the only reliable support, gold closed the year near $333, down about 6% and at its weakest since 1985.
The European ERM crisis climaxed in September when Britain was forced out of the mechanism on “Black Wednesday”.
Gold fell to about $330 that same month — a crisis met with fresh lows rather than a safe-haven bid.
Central banks, notably in Europe and Canada, continued steady reserve sales.
US disinflation continued, with the Fed cutting rates to then-record postwar lows.
Gold averaged about $344 per ounce in 1992, sliding from roughly $360 early in the year to a September low near $330, and closed around $333.
The crisis was a European currency realignment, not an inflation event — capital fled into dollars and bonds, while ongoing central-bank gold sales and disinflation kept the metal under pressure.
Gold's 1992 high was about $ 360.00 per troy ounce, reached in January.
The average gold price in 1992 was roughly $ 344.00 per troy ounce — it opened near $ 353.00 and closed around $ 333.00.
Gold fell about 5.7% over 1992, between a low of $ 330.00 and a high of $ 360.00.
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