Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

You need to show real-time Bermudian Dollar (BMD) values inside a pricing engine or dashboard and keep every conversion deterministic and cache-friendly. By the end of this guide, you will query Metals-API for the latest BMD quote, understand how to interpret the returned rate fields (BMD vs USDBMD), convert amounts reliably, and implement guardrails like caching and weekend handling. What “BMD price” means in Metals-API Metals-API returns data with a base currency of USD by default. For currencies, that means: rates.BMD is the amount of BMD per 1 USD. rates.USDBMD is the amount of USD per 1 BMD (the inverse). This mirrors the same convention used for metals (for example, a metal...