2015-07-22telegraph.co.uk

Spot prices slumped by more than 4pc to $1,086 an ounce in overnight trading after anonymous funds sold 57 tonnes of gold in Shanghai and New York, choosing the moment of minimum market liquidity in what appears to have been a synchronized strike intended to smash confidence.

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A division of the People's Liberation Army mines gold and transfers the metal to the Chinese finance ministry, acting outside normal commercial channels. The government also buys gold directly from Chinese producers. This is an internal transaction and is therefore not necessarily recorded in China's external reserves.

There is suspicion that China is talking down its true gold holdings as it prepares to join the big league as part of the International Monetary Fund's currency basket (SDR)'



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