China Bought Gold With Proceeds From Record Sale Of US Treasurys
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/30/2015
Overnight we got a second confirmation of China’s golden appetite, when the PBOC announced that China’s official gold holdings had risen again in August, increasing by 520,000 troy ounces, or 16.2 tons (which is more than 3 times the entire registered gold inventory in the Comex vault system), and bringing the new total to 54.5 million ounces, or 1,694 tons of gold. In dollar terms, Chinese gold holdings rose from $59.2 billion at the end of July to $61.8 billion. The punchline: in a month in which China sold a record $107 billion notional in Treasurys, it had no qualms about rotating the sale proceeds into gold.
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