Indische goudaankopen stuwen goudprijs naar nieuw record

Ja, het blijft een kwestie van wachten. Tot de ineenstorting van het westerse financieel systeem. Groot-Brittannië pompt nog een 30-tal miljard pond in twee insolvabele banken. De belastingbetaler betaalt. En als de belastingbetaler niet onmiddellijk betaalt, dan drukken ze het geld en zal elke belastingbetaler betalen onder de vorm van inflatie.

Londen is aan een zware val bezig. Net als het Westen.

Ik heb gezegd dat het goud van het westen naar het oosten zal gaan, een signaal van de machtsverschuivingen in de wereld.

Vandaag wordt bekend gemaakt dat India 200 ton goud koopt, namelijk de helft van de 400 ton goud die het IMF verkoopt (omdat het IMF anders zonder geld komt te zitten).

Ik zie het schip of het vliegtuig al vertrekken over de Atlantische en Indische Oceaan. Of wie weet gewoon over de Pacific.

De Indiërs zijn goud aan het kopen, niet enkel omdat ze voelen dat het huidige monetaire systeem zal instorten maar ook omdat ze de geopolitieke onzekerheid in hun nek voelen hijgen.

De wereldgeschiedenis is opnieuw aan het keren en de migratie van goud is altijd een belangrijk teken geweest.

De goudprijs stijgt vandaag keihard in zo goed als alle munten. Een nieuw record in Amerikaanse dollars voor goud en zilver stijgt 80 cent. Zilver was gecorrigeerd tot licht onder het 50 dagelijks gemiddelde en stijgt daar nu opnieuw boven, een teken dat we in een zeer sterke en opgaande markt gebeiteld zitten. Goud bleef de laatste weken constant rond het record hangen, een duidelijk teken dat dit verre van een top is zoals je steeds bij een zeepbel ziet. Dit is geen piek. Dit is een lanceerplatform. Nasa heeft geen shuttle meer nodig. De goudprijs gaat naar de maan enkel met een raket.

Verschillende bronnen waarschuwen voor een muntencrisis die vanaf november kan losbarsten. Ach, ik wacht al een tijd op die muntencrisis. Niemand weet wanneer het echt zal losbarsten, maar ik ben 100% zeker dat het zál losbarsten. 90 tot 99% van de mensheid is hier niet op voorbereid. Zo simpel is het.

Prepare for glory... for gold.


Hier een bericht over de Indische goudaankoop:

RBI to buy 200 tonnes of IMF gold

Decision to strengthen its gold reserves follows similar moves by central banks of some other countries

Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anup Roy

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, is buying 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), nearly half of what the fund plans to sell.
In 1991, when India faced its worst ever balance of payment crisis, the country had to pledge 67 tonnes of gold to Union Bank of Switzerland and Bank of England to raise $605 million (Rs2,843.5 crore today) to shore up its dwindling foreign exchange reserves, which were then barely enough to buy two weeks of imports. India’s foreign exchange reserves were at $1.2 billion in January 1991 and by June, they were depleted by half. Currently, the Indian central bank’s foreign exchange reserves stand at $285.5 billion.

Stockpiling: At the current market value of $1,054 an ounce, RBI would need to spend about $7.4 billion to buy 200 tonnes of gold. Norm Betts / Bloomberg RBI’s decision to shore up its gold reserves needs to be seen in the context of other central banks across the globe increasing their gold reserves. Among them are the central banks of China, Russia and a few countries in the European Union. In the last one year, China has increased its gold holdings, by weight, by 75.69%, Russia by 18.78%, the Philippines by 18.50% and Mexico by 108.91%.
Compared with this, India’s central bank did not add anything to its gold reserves in the last one year, according to Bloomberg data. In fact, the share of gold in India’s total reserves has dwindled over the decade. In March 1994, the share of gold in the total reserves of the country was 20.86%; by the end of June 2009, gold constituted only 3.7% of the total reserves. An IMF spokesperson in India declined to comment on this development. RBI’s foreign currency assets consist mainly of sovereign bonds, mainly US treasurys. So, buying more gold will help the Indian central bank diversify its assets.

“Gold as a proportion of our reserves is relatively small,” said R.H. Patil, chairman of National Securities Depository Ltd and Clearing Corp. of India Ltd. “Gold is the ultimate currency. In fact, only gold came to our rescue during (the) 1991 crisis, so it makes sense that RBI should try to increase its gold holdings,” Patil said.

RBI’s foreign exchange reserves consist of foreign currency assets, gold, special drawing rights (SDR)—an international reserve currency floated by IMF—and RBI funds kept with IMF. Out of RBI’s $285.5 billion foreign exchange reserves, foreign currency assets account for the most—$268.3 billion—followed by gold ($10.3 billion), SDR ($5,267 million) and reserve position in the IMF ($1,589 million).

According to RBI’s latest annual report, the foreign currency assets consisting of foreign securities declined by Rs81,010.25 crore from Rs12.98 trillion on 30 June 2008 to Rs12.17 trillion on 30 June 2009 mainly due to net sales of dollars in the domestic foreign exchange market. At the current market value of $1,054 an ounce, or per 28.5g, RBI would need to spend about $7.4 billion to buy 200 tonnes of gold. With this, its gold reserve will rise to $17.716 billion, or roughly 6.20% of the total reserves. IMF in September had announced that it wanted to sell 403 tonnes of its gold reserves, or one-eighth of its total holdings, to boost its finances on a long-term basis and to generate money to raise lending to needy nations. Under the concessional lending facility, IMF will lend at zero interest through end-2011 for all low-income members to help them tackle the impact of the financial crisis that rocked the world in the wake of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

A committee set up by a group of central banks overseeing the gold sales by the IMF has allowed the fund to sell 400 tonnes of its gold annually and 2,000 tonnes in total during the five years starting 27 September. According to a report by the Associated Press dated 20 September, India, along with China and Russia, had evinced interest in buying IMF-held gold. At a total holding of 103.4 million ounces, or 3,217 tonnes, IMF is the third largest official holder of gold after the US and Germany. IMF’s total holding at historical price is valued at about $9.2 billion on its balance sheet. At market prices, as of 28 August, the fund’s gold holdings were worth $98.8 billion. Traditionally, India has been the largest importer of gold, with imports ranging between 400 and 800 tonnes a year between 2000 and 2008. In the first half of 2009, gold imports have fallen drastically to 51 tonnes, according to the country’s apex bullion body the Bombay Bullion Association.

According to a fact sheet on gold on the IMF website, the yellow metal played a central role in the international monetary system until the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1973. Since then, the role of gold has been gradually reduced. However, it is still an important asset in the reserve holdings of a number of countries, and IMF remains one of the largest official holders of gold in the world.