四月各國中央銀行繼續買入黃金 !
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Today is a national holiday in the United Kingdom and the USA.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,385.25, EUR 1,068.95 and GBP 917.81 per ounce.
Gold climbed $5 on Friday and closed at $1,390.25/oz in London and silver closed at 22.482 in NY.
Gold rose 0.45% this morning in quiet European
trading with UK and U.S. markets closed for holidays. Silver, platinum
and palladium also advanced this morning.
Gold’s gains come on the back of the best week in a month last week when gold rose 2%.
Gold is being supported by continued
diversification from central banks and signs of increased physical
demand which is countering continued outflows in ETF holdings.
Russia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
expanded their gold reserves for a seventh straight month in April,
buying bullion to diversify foreign exchange reserves due to concerns
about the dollar and the euro.
Russia’s steady increase in its gold reserves saw
its holdings, the seventh-largest by country, climb another 8.4 metric
tons to 990 tons, taking gains this year to 3.4% after expanding by
8.5% in 2012, International Monetary Fund data show.
Kazakhstan’s reserves grew 2.6 tons to 125.5 tons,
taking the increase to 8.9% this year after a 41% expansion in 2012,
data on the website showed.
Turkey’s holdings rose 18.2 tons to 427.1 tons in
April, increasing for a 10th month as it accepted gold in its reserve
requirements from commercial banks.
Belarus’s holdings expanded for a seventh month as did Azerbaijan’s.
Interestingly, Greece’s gold holdings climbed for a fourth month, according to the IMF data.
This could be a sign of rising economic
nationalism in Greece or that the Greek central bank realises that if
Greece leaves the euro and is forced back onto the drachma that gold
reserves will offer a modicum of protection. Only a modicum, because
Greece’s gold reserves remain miniscule especially considering the
scale of their debts.
Central banks are buying gold as an overall
strategy of forex portfolio diversification and the recent price drop
will not deter them from a long term policy of diversification into
gold.
Central bank reserve managers are conservative
rather than speculative and will ignore the day to day noise and price
predictions emanating from certain banks in favour of passive
allocations to gold as part of their foreign exchange diversification
strategy.
IMF World Gold Reserves, Monthly 31Mar2007-31Mar2013, in Mill Fin Troy Oz
While not driven by price, some central banks may have made the most of the lower prices by increasing their holdings by more than they would have if prices had risen in value.
The long term trend for central banks to increase gold reserves remains intact and will support gold.
Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold last year,
the most since 1964, and may add as much as 550 tons in 2013, the World
Gold Council estimates. While central-bank purchases fell 5.2 percent
in the three months through March, they totaled more than 100 tons for
the seventh straight quarter, according to council data.
China’s foreign currency reserves have surged more
than 700% since 2004 and are now enough to buy every central bank’s
official gold supply - twice.
China’s foreign reserves surpassed the value of
all official bullion holdings in January 2004 and rose to $3.3 trillion
at the end of 2012 and are at $3.4 trillion today.
The price of gold has failed to keep pace with the
surge in the value of Chinese and global foreign exchange holdings.
Gold has increased just 54% in the last 5 years and 250% since 2004,
with the registered volume little changed, according to data based on
International Monetary Fund and World Gold Council figures.
By comparison, China’s reserves rose 721% from
2004 through 2012, while the combined total among Brazil, Russia and
India rose about 400% to $1.1 trillion.
Continuing diversification into gold from the huge
foreign exchange reserves by the People’s Bank of China and other
central banks is a primary pillar which will support gold and should
contribute to higher prices in the coming years.
We are confident that the PBOC is quietly
accumulating gold and we expect another announcement from the PBOC,
possibly this year, when they again disclose to the market that they
drastically increased their gold reserves – possibly from 1,054 tonnes
to between 2,000 and 3,000 tonnes.
3 則留言:
其實央行增持黃金,係實金定ETF?
回Tang King,
一定唔會是黃金ETF, 因為上一排都有報告俄羅斯普京收一塊塊的金磚 !
希望各位像央行一樣,大把錢。
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