Gold opens the week $28.80 lower at $4,348.20 an ounce

Corrected 24 September 2026: this article said "LBMA's newest published fixes are dated 18 September" - a claim covering all four metals - while citing only the London gold feed. The three other LBMA feeds were re-fetched on 24 September and each confirms an 18 September point and no later one before 21 September: silver 67.035, platinum PM 1,793.20, palladium PM 1,315.50. They are now listed in the sources. Every figure was correct as published; only the citation was short.

A second reading at a different hour. Spot metal is a moving number and this one is a single tick; the direction here would be contradicted by any later tick that crosses back above the 18 September mark.

A screen bid is what a dealer will pay, a screen ask is what a dealer will sell at, and the difference between them is the spread, not a disagreement. A London fix is a third thing again: an auction-determined benchmark struck at a set hour and published once, which is why it can sit a long way from a screen price taken at another moment. Carat Capital's tape quotes the bid, and has done since 31 August 2026, so that every comparison across sessions is like for like. Comparing a fix with a screen quote, or a bid with an ask, produces a divergence that is arithmetic rather than news.

Kitco's board was fetched at press time and read out of the page's own embedded __NEXT_DATA__ blob rather than off the rendered page, bid quoted. The source's own tick stamps read 2026-09-21T06:04:56.9Z through 06:04:57.03Z; that stamp is the ET wall clock labelled Z, the same offset the tape recorded at its 05:00 filing. Kitco's own change fields agree with the arithmetic against the 18 September marks to the decimal on all four metals: -28.80 and -0.6580% on gold, +0.005 and +0.0076% on silver, -1.00 and -0.0557% on platinum, -1.00 and -0.0779% on palladium. All four readings differed from the 05:00 filing and all four were written back to the dated tape and to the file the dashboard renders in the same step, under the One-Price Rule; the two files were compared afterwards and match on every metal. Two of the four changed sign between those two readings, silver from -$0.112 to +$0.005 and palladium from +$1.00 to -$1.00, which is why the direction on those cells is small and not asserted as a session trend. The second door was JM Bullion's four spot-chart pages, stamped 06:07 EDT, three minutes after the Kitco tick; that source labels its own cells 'Ask' in its markup and its figures track the Kitco ask, as established on 2026-09-16. The four gaps were 0.34%, 0.98%, 0.29% and 0.02%, all inside the band recorded on prior sessions, so no divergence is disclosed and no mark was held. No market condition is claimed: the page carries both an open and a closed tooltip string pre-rendered in its raw HTML, so the displayed state cannot be read out of the bytes, and nothing here says the market was open, closed or thin. The LBMA gold PM series was fetched separately and its newest point is 2026-09-18 at 4,348.15, which is the only London figure printed in the article. At the time of writing only that feed was opened, while the article's sentence about the fixes covered all four metals; the other three feeds were opened on 24 September to close that gap and each carries an 18 September point and nothing later before 21 September - silver 67.035, platinum PM 1,793.20, palladium PM 1,315.50. All four are now cited.

1. Precious metals live board, Kitco
2. Gold spot price chart, JM Bullion 21 September 2026
3. LBMA gold price PM, 18 September 2026 fix (4,348.15) 18 September 2026
4. LBMA silver price, 18 September 2026 fix (67.035) 18 September 2026
5. LBMA platinum price PM, 18 September 2026 fix (1,793.20) 18 September 2026
6. LBMA palladium price PM, 18 September 2026 fix (1,315.50) 18 September 2026