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Royal Mint cashes in as gold market coins it
Production of gold coins has been dramatically ramped up as demand for the precious metal continues to surge
Chinese consumers embrace gold
Chinese consumers’ demand for gold reached record levels in the third quarter but high prices affected demand in other areas of the world
View of the Day: The bullion bull-run
India’s recent decision to buy International Monetary Fund gold could just herald the start of a new bull market in bullion, says Dylan Grice, strategist at Société Générale.
Mauritius becomes latest nation to buy gold
The trend for central banks to buy bullion continues with the purchase by the Indian Ocean nation of two tonnes of bullion from the International Monetary Fund
Q&A: Gold’s record run
Aram Shishmanian, chief executive of the World Gold Council, on the ways in which investors can best exploit record high gold prices and what’s behind bullion’s record-breaking run
HKMEx to launch gold futures contract
A Chinese state-backed exchange is to offer its first futures contract as early as January in an attempt to give the Asia region a greater role in the pricing of global commodities
Editorial: Bullion quest is no golden opportunity
Gold purchases do nothing to change the monstrous growth of reserves in surplus nations, particularly in Asia, which means they also do nothing to address the global macroeconomic imbalances that leaders profess to worry about
Sri Lanka follows Indian move to buy gold
The Sri Lankan central bank is buying gold to diversify its reserves and smooth out periods of dollar volatility
New Delhi puts hallmark on return to gold
For the past 20 years central banks have been in the grip of anti-gold sentiment. Today the picture looks decidedly different: sales in Europe have slowed to a crawl and Asian banks have started swapping their dollars for gold
Opinion: Paranoid theories cannot take the shine off gold
The goldbugs’ resolute disbelief in the value of official currencies is influencing mainstream market opinion, writes John Dizard
