Golden reservations of the central banks
13-09-2010 golden marketIt is believed that the central banks and the national possessions of the governments accumulate 20,5 % of all the gold of the world, that is to say, of approximately 29.634 tons of gold.
Report updated July, 2010, important changes from December, 2009:
* IMF sells 10 tons of gold to Bangladesh
* IMF sold 38,7 tons of gold from the middle of February, 2010.
* Russia has increased his golden reservation in 26,6 tons (5,5 %)
* Germany has lost 800 kilograms of gold.
Possibly due to the new coins of gold of facial value 20 Euros (it stays for confirming for the Department of Finance of Germany)
* Russia has increased his golden reservation in approximately 33,3 tons, putting itself like nº world 9.
* and ordering to the Netherlands to the nº 10, although the Dutches have increased his golden reservation in 100 tons.
* Venezuela has increased his golden reservation in 4,4 tons.
* Sweden has increased his golden reservation in 1 ton.
* China has increased his golden reseva in 0,1 ton.
* Kazakhstan has diminished his reservation in 4 tons.
* Indonesia has diminished his reservation in 1,4 tons.
* The Philippines it has diminished his reservation in 300 kilograms.
* Greece supports a golden reservation of approximately 112,40 tons (interesting, because they might enter on the market).
Official information of the golden reservations of the central banks spread in a recent report of the World Council of the Gold (World Gold Council - WGC) published in March, 2010.
What are the countries what more gold do they possess?
1. The United States (use)
The USA guards approximately 8.133,50 tons of gold.
2. Germany
Deutsche Bundesbank guards approximately 3.406,80 tons of gold.
3. Monetary Fund International (IMF)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) guards approximately 2.996,6 tons of gold.
4. Italy
The Banking D'Italia guards approximately 2.451,80 tons of gold.
5. France
Banque De France guards approximately 2.435,40 tons of gold.
6. China
China guards approximately 1.054,10 tons of gold.
7. Switzerland
Schweizer Nationalbank guards approximately 1.040,10 tons of gold.
8. Japan
The Bank of Japan guards approximately 765,20 tons of gold.
9. Russia
The Head office Bank of the Russian Federation guards approximately 668,6 tons of gold.
10. Netherlands (Holland)
Netherland Bank guards approximately 612,50 tons of gold.
11. India
The Reserve Bank of India guards approximately 557,70 tons of gold.
12. Central Bank of Europe (BCE)
The Central Europaean Bank (ECB) guards approximately 501,40 tons of gold.
13. Taiwan
Taiwan guards approximately 423,60 tons of gold.
14. Portugal
The Bank of Portugal guards 382,50 tons of gold.
15. Venezuela
The Bank of Venezuela guards approximately 360,80 tons of gold.
16. England
he guards approximately 310,30 tons of gold.
17. Lebanon
he guards approximately 286,80 tons of gold.
18. Spain
The golden reservation of Spain is estimated in approximately 281,60 tons of gold.
19. Austria
he guards approximately 280,00 tons of gold.
20. Belgium
he guards approximately 227,50 tons of gold.
30. Greece
he guards approximately 112,40 tons of gold.
Web of the World Council of the Gold: World Gold Council (WGC)
PDF: WGC Gold 03 2010 (it is necessary to register)
Wikipedia in Castilian (not current information): Official golden reservations
Wikipedia in English (information 12/2009): Gold reserves
10-09-2010
IMF sells 10 tons of gold to Bangladesh
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which became detached already of concerning 13 % of his golden reservations the year 2009, sold 10 tons to Bangladesh.
The IMF said in a bulletin that also another 88,3 tons have sold under the sales program on market.
An analyst of Korea Exchange Bank Futures has assured Bloomberg that
“The operation is going to impel to the gold up as the buys of the central banks, traditionally, have been the biggest factor of increase of prices. The central banks want to diversify his reservations for the instability of the dollar and we can see more buys in the way.”
26-04-2010
IMF sold 5,6 tons of gold in February, 2010
The International Monetary Fund sold 5,6 tons of gold in February, 2010, like part of the second phase of his program, said the World Council of Gold (WGC). The sales of the IMF are realized under the umbrella of the Third Agreement of Gold with Central banks, which began in September, 2009. On April 20, the entire sales specified inside the agreement add 7,2 tons. According to the signed on the parts, the operations are limited to 400 tons per year.
The IMF started his plan of selling 403,3 tons of gold last year of 2009. After the sales brought by the WGC, 200 tons that went to India, and minor quantities to Sri Lanka and to the Islands Mauritius last year, stay 185,7 remaining tons.
12-04-2010 the Country
The central banks moor his golden reservations
The climb of the price of the gold of last year, the biggest in decades for the depreciation of the dollar and the effect refuge of this metal in epoch of crisis, has given a draft to the strategy that the central banks have continued for 20 years. From a high sales politics, to a neutral position. The World Council of the Gold, organization formed by the first mine-layers of the world, has made public that the reservations of the national banks registered last year his first increase from 1988, of 425,4 tons, up to reaching the 30.116.
(Updated 13-09-2010)
