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UBS YEARBOOK 2026 · 1900—2025

UBS YEARBOOK 2026 · 1900—2025 — Gold Performance During Market Drawdowns and High Inflation Regimes

Gold Performance in Crises — Empirical track record of gold as a downside defense and inflation hedge across eleven major equity drawdowns since 1975.

Across eleven major U.S. equity drawdowns since 1975, gold gained in eight and outperformed stocks in all eleven. Against inflation, however, gold posted negative real returns in 13 of 28 years when inflation exceeded 3%.

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This static page is built to answer searches for UBS YEARBOOK 2026 · 1900—2025. It summarizes the live dataset behind the Gold Performance During Market Drawdowns and High Inflation Regimes panel and links to the full interactive chart.

Across eleven major U.S. equity drawdowns since 1975, gold gained in eight and outperformed stocks in all eleven. Against inflation, however, gold posted negative real returns in 13 of 28 years when inflation exceeded 3%. The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.

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UBS YEARBOOK 2026 · 1900—2025 — Gold Performance During Market Drawdowns and High Inflation RegimesUSD 1971+4.7%GBP 1971+5.8%CHF 1971+4.3%
Plate I.22 Across eleven major U.S. equity drawdowns since 1975, gold gained in eight and outperformed stocks in all eleven. Against inflation, however, gold posted negative real returns in 13 of 28 years when inflation exceeded 3%.

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History of Market combines public market and macro datasets — exchange closing prices, company filings, Robert Shiller, FRED, NBER, and the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook (Dimson–Marsh–Staunton). The exact endpoint for this panel is linked below.

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