Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Currency Wars: China's Gold Imports Soar 500% As the International Banks Pressure Their Markets

The rhyme of history being what it is, the hard money versus soft money wars have not gone away and seem to be heating up.
From Goldcore:

"China's growing importance to the precious metal markets was underlined by the news that Chinese imports have surged by more than 500% due to increased investment demand. Incredibly, China's gold imports were five times higher in the first ten months than in the whole of last year. Imports hit 209 tonnes compared to 45 tonnes for all of 2009, according to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Trading volume of gold on the exchange in the first 10 months rose 43 percent from a year earlier to 5,014.5 tonnes.

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