The claim is supported by a specific newsflash from Odaily and corroborated by data found on Investing.com. The price of $4,999.46 is an exact match between the Odaily report and a commodity data snippet on Investing.com. Furthermore, market analysis from February 2026 (Investing.com) confirms that gold was already trading near the $5,000 threshold, making the reported price on March 18, 2026, highly plausible and consistent with the established trend.