found this bit:
India historically has been a pretty bad gold investor. Goldman Sachs: "Since 1994, gold as a percentage of India's foreign exchange reserves fell from just over 20% to approximately 3.6% (based on latest reserve data of US$285.5bn on 23/10/2009)."
So the Indian central bank essentially sold ahead of the massive gold rally - They missed the rally.
more of the same, from '07:
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]History has shown that pressure is certainly applied on top of the market during each period of elevated CB sales. This can be no clearer illustration than what happened after the Bank of England and Gordon Brown announced they would sell over 400 tonnes of gold reserves, causing prices to hit 20-year lows in what most traders now refer to as the Brown Bottom. In the last decade, we have also seen the Bank of Canada sell off all of it's gold holdings, the Banks of Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and France, amongst others, also sell off a major percentages of their gold holdings into the market. The one thing that has held true is that the gold price has continued to bounce back and head higher as these sales have concluded.
>> perhaps its well known that CB's have no idea & it was a buy signal...
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India historically has been a pretty bad gold investor. Goldman Sachs: "Since 1994, gold as a percentage of India's foreign exchange reserves fell from just over 20% to approximately 3.6% (based on latest reserve data of US$285.5bn on 23/10/2009)."
So the Indian central bank essentially sold ahead of the massive gold rally - They missed the rally.
more of the same, from '07:
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]History has shown that pressure is certainly applied on top of the market during each period of elevated CB sales. This can be no clearer illustration than what happened after the Bank of England and Gordon Brown announced they would sell over 400 tonnes of gold reserves, causing prices to hit 20-year lows in what most traders now refer to as the Brown Bottom. In the last decade, we have also seen the Bank of Canada sell off all of it's gold holdings, the Banks of Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and France, amongst others, also sell off a major percentages of their gold holdings into the market. The one thing that has held true is that the gold price has continued to bounce back and head higher as these sales have concluded.
>> perhaps its well known that CB's have no idea & it was a buy signal...
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