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Gold fairly valued at $1,000, or at $10,000… Or is that question
China Imports More Gold From Hong Kong In Five Months Than All Of UK’s
Combined Gold Holdings
There are those who say gold may go to $10,000 or to $0, or somewhere in
between; in a different universe, they would be the people furiously staring at
the trees. For a quick look at the forest, we suggest readers have a glance at
the chart below. It shows that just in the first five months of 2012
alone, China has imported more gold, a total of 315 tons, than all the official
gold holdings of the UK, at 310.3 according to the WGC/IMF (a country
which infamously
sold 400 tons of gold by Gordon Brown at ~$275/ounce).
WORLD OFFICIAL GOLD HOLDINGS
– GOVT TRESAURY
International Financial Statistics
TONNES, %OF/RESERVES****
1, UNITED STATES :- 8,133.50 74.7%
2, GERMANY 3,396.3 71.4%
3, IMF 2814.0
4,ITALY 2451.8 70.9%
5, FRANCE 2435.4 71.1%
6, CHINA 1054.1 1.6%
7,
SWITZERLAND 1040.1 16.2%
8,RUSSIA 911.3 8.9%
9,JAPAN 765.2 3.0%
10, NETHERLAND 612.5% 59%
11, INDIA 557.7 9.6%
12, ECB 502.1 31.8%
13, TAIWAN 422.4 5.7%
14, PORTUGAL 382.5 90.0%
15, VENEZUELA 365.8 71.0%
16, SAUDI ARABIA 322.90 2.7%
17,UNITED KINGDOM 310.3 15.5%
18, LEBANON 286.8 29.4%
In May, imports by China from Hong Kong jumped sixfold to 75,635.7
kilograms (75.6 metric tons) from a year earlier, Hong Kong government data
showed. The nation “remains the most important player on the global gold market,”
Commerzbank AG said in a report. The dollar fell from a five-week high against
a basket of currencies, boosting the appeal of the metal as an alternative
investment.
“Higher physical demand in China is good news for the market,”
Sterling Smith, a commodity analyst at Citigroup Inc.’s institutional client
group in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. “The mildly weak dollar is
also positive.”
The World Gold Council has forecast that China will top India this year as
the world’s largest consumer because rising incomes will bolster demand.
And those looking at the trees will still intone “but, but, gold is under
$1,600″ – yes it is. And count your lucky stars. Because while all of the
above is happening, Iran and Turkey have quietly started unwinding the
petrodollar hegemony. From the FT:
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat),
Turkey’s trade with Iran in May rose a whopping 513.2 per cent to hit
$1.7bn. Of this, gold exports to its eastern neighbour accounted for the
bulk of the increase. Nearly $1.4bn worth of gold was exported to Iran,
accounting for 84 per cent of Turkey’s trade with the country.
So what’s going on?
In a nutshell – sanctions and oil.
With Tehran struggling to repatriate the hard currency it earns from crude
oil exports – its main foreign currency earner and the economic lifeblood of
the country – Iran has began accepting alternative means of payments – including
gold, renminbi and rupees, for oil in an attempt to skirt international
sanctions and pay for its soaring food costs.
“Iran is very keen to increase the share of gold in its total reserves,”
says Gokhan Aksu, vice chairman of Istanbul Gold Refinery, one of Turkey’s
biggest gold firms. “You can always transfer gold into cash without losing
value.”
Turkey’s gold exports to Iran are part of the picture. As TurkStat itself
noted, the gold exports were for “non-monetary purpose exportation”.
Translation: they were sent in place of dollars for oil.
Iran furnishes about 40 percent of Turkey’s oil, making it the largest
single supplier, according to Turkey’s energy ministry. While Turkey has
sharply reduced its oil imports from Iran as a result of pressure from the US
and the EU, it is unlikely to cut this to zero. The country pays about $6 a
barrel less for Iranian oil than Brent crude, according to a recent Goldman
Sachs report.
According to Ugur Gurses, an economic and financial columnist for the
Turkish daily Radikal, Turkey exported 58 tonnes of gold to Iran between
March and May this year alone.
And here is the punchline: if Iran is getting gold in exchange for
products, that means that someone else is demanding Iran’s gold in exchange for
other products. But we won’t read about it until those “others” decide to issue
a press release.
In other words, the anti-dollar trade is now alive and well, and Iran has
been happily transacting in a dollar-free vacuum since the March SWIFT embargo.
Most likely “buyers” of Iran’s gold? The usual suspects of course: China,
Russia, (both of whom recently established bilateral trade relations with the
country just for that purpose, here and here)
and India.
So: is gold fairly valued at $1,000, at $1,600 or at $10,000… Or is that
question even relevant any more as the part of the world that is not
broke is quietly shifting to its as its default currency?
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