Opmerkelijk nieuws uit Moscou. Een afgevaardigde van de Russische centrale bank zei tegen nieuwsdienst Dow Jones dat Rusland ieder jaar 100 ton goud wil kopen.

MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Central Bank of Russia has purchased 90 metric tons of gold to date in 2011 and is on course to buy 100 tons before the end of the year, deputy head of the bank Sergey Shevtsov said as quoted by the bank’s press service. The bank said earlier it would aim at buying 100 tons of gold every year and increase the proportion of gold in the country’s reserves as a safeguard against volatility on the international financial markets. On Oct. 1 the Central Bank’s gold reserve stood at 852.14 tons, up from 789.9 tons on Jan. 1. In the course of 2010 Russia’s gold reserve increased by 24% to 25.2 million troy ounces, while its value in dollar terms increased by 60% to $35.788 billion. The share of gold in the country’s total gold and currency reserves in the course of 2010 increased by 2.4 percentage points to 7.5%.

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