Gold expert Willem Middelkoop explains how much gold China really controls and what it intends to do with it
Tuesday, March 8 2016
China’s Global Gold Strategy
By GCRU Gold News on Tuesday, March 8 2016, 23:18
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Tuesday, March 8 2016
By GCRU Gold News on Tuesday, March 8 2016, 23:18
Gold expert Willem Middelkoop explains how much gold China really controls and what it intends to do with it
Saturday, August 8 2015
By GCRU Gold News on Saturday, August 8 2015, 01:47
But perhaps what is most interesting is the enormous volume of gold that has been bought privately – some 6,500 tonnes – and that China has encouraged its citizens to do this.
Perhaps it is as unsure about fiat currency as the rest of us. It wants its citizens to own gold – just in case.
Tuesday, July 28 2015
By GCRU Gold News on Tuesday, July 28 2015, 07:08
This demonstrates the “sharing” of China’s gold stocks between the government and its people and that “the policy of ‘gold held by the people’ has been well achieved”.
Tuesday, July 21 2015
By GCRU Gold News on Tuesday, July 21 2015, 00:21
It is important to remember that as we have long pointed out two other entities, besides the PBOC, have also been buying gold – the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) and the China Investment Corporation (CIC).
Although if the combined holdings of the PBOC, SAFE and CIC were added together, China may well be the second largest holder of gold bullion – after the U.S. – assuming that U.S. gold reserve figures, which have not been publicly audited in over 60 years, are accurate.
It is likely, that in total and between the three China’s financial institutions, China may in fact be holding between 3,000 tonnes and 6,000 tonnes of gold.
Thursday, July 9 2015
By GCRU Gold News on Thursday, July 9 2015, 23:17
China has been making it very clear that it wants more control over the global gold market, but it’ll have to go through New York and London first.
“Given that China is the epicenter of the physical gold market, it does make sense that the Chinese government would want its physical Shanghai gold market to supplant the Comex derivative market (and others) as the primary global price-setting mechanism,”
Wednesday, June 18 2014
By GCRU Gold News on Wednesday, June 18 2014, 10:03
China National Gold Group Corp. is on the hunt for acquisitions and partnerships, the mining company's president said, possibly becoming a kingmaker in the beleaguered industry.
Xin Song said he recently talked about potential partnerships with Barrick Gold Corp, the world's largest gold producer.
By GCRU Gold News on Wednesday, June 18 2014, 09:09
We cannot understand today’s gold market without understanding the role China and, in a different way, India play in it. The gold market in general is very opaque and the Chinese one, in particular, is even more. In this article, I will look at China’s role in the gold market. In 1950, communist China prohibited private ownership of bullion and put the gold industry under state control. Fifty years later the People’s Bank of China abandoned its monopoly on the purchase, allocation and pricing of gold. In 2004, for the first time since 1950, private persons were permitted to own and trade gold. China has become the most important physical gold market in the world. It is now both the number one producer and consumer of gold. The World Gold Council, in a recent report on China and gold, expects the Chinese private sector gold demand to be at least 1,350 tonnes by 2017. Today China is the world’s largest market for gold bars, in part because of successful development initiatives by the major chinese banks.
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