It's more of an excuse to sell gold. See, they don't say to media that they sell gold to push down the price. They give made-up reasons. Alike the IMF that sold gold so-called to pay its adminstration bills and to help funding some poor African governments.
THe Cyprus gold is more like the reason although this is also in the news http://www.goldalert.com/2013/04/gold-price-sinks-1-on-hawkish-fed-minutes/ as gold dives today
In the old days, the Germans would just roll in the tanks to take the gold. In the modern world, you create a sovereign and bank debt crisis and then buy the gold on the cheap. Genius. Cyprus has (had) 14 tonne of AU Ireland has 6 tonne. Greece has 112 tonne Spain has 281 tonne and Portugal has a whopping 382 tonne. Total: 795 tonne of AU. Germany has a lazy 3391 tonne. I'm thinking Spain and Portugal are about to have a fire sale.
So true, and the cynic in me can't help but wonder if it isn't accidental. :/ (not just the leaked minutes, but the misinformation in general) When you consider that we now live in the Information Era, it's not difficult to see how the use (and abuse) of information can be a very powerfull tool (or weapon)
How can you own that much gold and still be in debt? Serious incompetence. And now it been announced that a boat load of gold is about to hit the market! Why didn't Cyprus just remint kookaburras if they wanted to wind us up?! Still, once this lot of gold has flooded the market and been mopped up then gold prices will rise again, surely
It's the trillions http://www.sprottgroup.com/thoughts/articles/a-retort-to-soc-gens-latest-gold-report/ Makes sense to me.
So is this why we saw the price of gold and silver drop drastically in the last couple of weeks? To get more bang for buck for buying Cyprus' Gold reserves? Can anyone shed some light.
Apparently it's official now, Cyprus will sell its piddly little 400m (10.36t) worth of gold. Is this a special case or will Italy and Portugal be forced to do the same? Very bearish for gold if this is the case :/ Restrictions Eased
I think this will be bullish for gold as the sovereigns will need their gold back to sell it. Unless they just do a bit of creative "allocating" accountancy a change ownership in paper only. I suspect the new owners (read china/ecb) will want it in their grubby paws on it. Amerika is going to be drained (if it has anything to drain)