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China's Rumored IMF Gold Buy
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A yet to be verified story from Rough & Polished, a Moscow based website, reported that China had "confirmed its decision to acquire 191.3 tons of gold auctioned by the International Monetary Fund." Of course, until official confirmation comes from China, no one will really know if this story is true or not. However, if true, here's why this story would be hugely significant to the gold market.
One, such a purchase would give more validity to the theory that China, with a vested interest in the price of gold today, is willing to intercede and support gold prices whenever they are being attacked by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England through their manipulation of fraudulent gold futures markets in London and New York.
Two, it would further support to exposing the gold futures markets in London and New York as nothing more than a gold fractional reserve playground that allows the western banking cartel to manipulate gold prices. The last available Commitment of Traders reports indicated that the Commercials were short 663.83 metric tonnes of gold. This position is supposed to be fully deliverable by the Commercials should the offsetting longs ask for delivery. Even though the Commercials very likely hold some of the offsetting longs through spread positions, that short position still represents a ton (no pun intended) of gold - gold, that according to COMEX regulations, must be available for physical delivery.
However, if an incredibly large tonnage of physical (not paper) gold were really available for purchase on the COMEX, why would China feel an urgency to take delivery of a mere 191.3 tonnes of gold now through the IMF? Could it be because India "scooped" them the last time the IMF made a gold sale and China does not wish to be left twisting in the wind again with very little physical gold available for delivery in the global futures markets? If the China IMF gold story were true, the above would be plausible reasons for China acting now rather than later.
Remember, last week in my article, "IMF Gold Sales v. the Alchemy of Gold Futures" (available on my blog, www.theundergroundinvestor.com), I stated,
"If you were India, China or the United Arab Emirates and you wanted to buy 200 tonnes of gold at the price established in futures markets, but you knew that there was no possible situation whereby 200 tonnes of gold would ever be delivered to you via the futures markets, what would you do? Would you buy 200 tonnes of gold in the futures markets only to know that you would suffer a default of this delivery and likely be forced to pay a much higher price in the future or would you try to arrange to buy 200 tonnes of gold NOW from the IMF or another Central Bank? Of course, you would choose the latter tactic."
If it turns out that this story is true, then apparently the Chinese government agrees with me. Also remember that China, as the world's largest producer of gold, is likely to keep the vast majority of its future gold production in house. Thus if China is still turning to the outside market to buy its gold to buttress its gold reserves in addition to its internal production, then this story is very bullish for the long-term future of gold.
Three, if this story is later confirmed to be true, only an inside Chinese source could have leaked this story to the press. No inside source would have leaked this story unless...
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Warmest Regards,
JS Kim
Managing Director & Chief Investment Strategist
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