reuters.com - 18 days ago
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* IMF sells 200 tonnes of gold to Reserve Bank of India * Sale is part of total of 403.3 tonnes to be sold by IMF * Gold price reverses earlier gains, flat near $1,058 * Relieves bearish risk of open-market bullion sale * Is China next? (Updates prices para 6, analyst comments in paras 7-8, 12) ...
blogs.reuters.com - 11 days ago
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Gold’s recent behavior strikes me as similar to
oil circa July ‘08. With it leaping to another
new high today, I thought I’d offer the following chart for reader comments: (Click chart to enlarge in new window) Thanks to ...
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Chart of the Day: The Dow priced in gold
blogs.ft.com - 13 days ago
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Gold is unlike any other commodity. It is
costly to extract from the earth and to refine
to a reasonable degree of purity. It is costly to store. It has no remaining uses as a producer good - equivalent or superior alternatives exist for all its ...
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Gold - a six thousand year-old bubble
mineweb.com - 17 days ago
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mineweb.com —
World's 100 hottest gold stocks Gold stocks of
all sizes are in good demand; buying remains selective
in the face of booming dollar gold bullion prices. Author: Barry Sergeant Posted: Wednesday , 04 Nov 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Dollar gold bullion traded ...
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Gold Soars to New Highs
Bespoke Investment Group —
The price of gold has broken out to another new high this morning following news that India's Central Bank purchased 200 tons of the metal from the IMF. Previously, the IMF had announced that it would sell around 400 tons, raising speculation that the planned sale would cause a glut of gold in the market. Based on India's $6.7 billion 200-ton purchase, the market may have an easier time digesting the increased supply than previously thought. The average price per ounce for the Indian Central Bank's purchase works out to around $1,045. With gold now trading at $1,079, they ...
Gold jumps to record on purchase by India
Rolfe Winkler —
From Surojit Gupta and Lesley Wroughton, Reuters:
The International Monetary Fund has sold 200 tonnes of gold to the Reserve Bank of India for $6.7 billion, quietly executing half of a long-planned bullion sale that has threatened to slow gold’s ascent….
…Although the IMF’s plan to sell a share of its gold holdings in order to increase low-cost lending to poor countries had been flagged for a year before it was formally approved in September, the speed, scale and identity of the buyer were a surprise….
….The ...
Gold Futures Spike To New Record High
Millionaire Now! —
... "The price of gold has broken out to another new high this morning following news that India's Central Bank purchased 200 tons of the metal from the IMF. Previously, the IMF had announced that it would sell around 400 tons, raising speculation that the planned sale would cause a glut of gold in the market. Based on India's $6.7 billion 200-ton purchase, the market may have an easier time digesting the increased supply than previously thought. The average price per ounce for the Indian Central Bank's purchase works out to around $1,045. With gold now trading at $1,079, they ...
‘Brangelina’ cash-in on gold mania (for charity of course)
FT Alphaville —
... 2 tonnes of IMF gold on November 11 for $71.1m. Mauritius follows India, which was the first nation to announce it had purchased some of the 400 tonnes of gold being offered to the market by the IMF. The above, meanwhile, also supports the World Gold Council’s recent survey, which ...
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India Buys 200 Tons Of Gold And Moves From The Dollar
247wallst.com 18 days ago — The dollar is still losing its luster as the foreign reserve currency of choice. India has just bought 200 tons of gold from the IMF at $1,045 an ounce which is close to a recent record high of $1,070. The entire transaction is worth almost $7 ...
India Buys $6.7 Billion Worth of Gold from the IMF —
GoldSeek.com
Observers will be surprised not to see China snapping up the IMF gold, and of course China might emerge as the buyer of the remaining hoard. China has boosted its gold reserves by 76 per cent to 1,054 tons worth around $32 billion since 2003, officials said in April.
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The Mess That Greenspan Made
TOP STORIES Lloyds and RBS cut down to size - BBC India buys 200 tonnes of IMF gold - Mineweb Government Statistics and Lies - Texas Straight Talk Berkshire Buys Burlington in Buffett’s Biggest Deal - Bloomberg He earned $53 million opening doors to CalPERS money - LA Times The Real Pending ...
India Buys HALF IMF’s 403 Tonnes —
GoldSeek.com
It’s starting ladies and gentlemen. Central banks will be, or are, clamouring over each other for physical gold and as Paul Tudor Jones put it there simply won’t be enough gold to go around in a few years when it’s really needed.