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Weakness in Gold “Being Caused by Futures Market”, “Mounting Risk” Britain Will Lose Triple-A Rating | The Daily Gold

The Daily Gold writes:

 

"... A day earlier, gold fell through $1700 an ounce on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a month.

 

“Because physical demand appears relatively robust at present, the fall in the price of gold was no doubt triggered mainly by the futures market,” says today’s commodities note from Commerzbank.

 

"Open interest in gold futures trading on the New York Comex fell for the seventh session running Tuesday, down around 10% from the start of last week, according to data from Comex operator CME Group – although that period does cover last Wednesday’s sudden price drop.

 

"The volume of gold held by world’s largest gold ETF SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) meantime rose to a fresh all-time high yesterday at 1351.2 tonnes. ..."

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Ireland remains silent on Gold reserves with BoE

The bank further said it had not entered into any lease arrangements regarding any of its gold but would not provide specific details of its storage arrangements with the Bank of England.

 

DUBLIN(BullionStreet): Irish authorities remained silent over it's gold storing arrangements with the Bank of England despite recent controversies.

 

The Central Bank of Ireland stuck with the two earlier statements which said the value was 235 million pound last time it checked. This represents just over 1 per cent of its total investments.

 

The bank further said it had not entered into any lease arrangements regarding any of its gold but would not provide specific details of its storage arrangements with the Bank of England.

Hal's insight:

If you don't hold the gold, than do you really own it?

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