Customers Savings invested in silver, platinum and palladium

Clients Savings keep increasing interest in investing in precious metals. But if last year's preference for gold, now the most popular silver, platinum and palladium. , Told RIA Novosti news agency spokesman Savings Bank. Last year saw record growth in the operations of Russia's largest bank with precious metals - funky instability in the foreign exchange market, citizens have bought into Sberbank four times as many bars and twice as many coins. The most popular depersonalized metal accounts (CBO), the volume of transactions for which in 2008 grew by four times. In this case, the main demand was for gold (70%), then - in silver (17%), platinum (9%) and palladium (4%). According to the representative of the Savings Bank, turnover of OMC in silver for five months of 2009 increased compared to the same period in 2008, more than 40% - up to 154 tons. Turnover of the OMC in platinum and palladium rose more than 2 times and amounted to 2.3 tonnes and 2.5 tonnes respectively. At the same time, the volume of transactions in gold in the impersonal form of the first five months of this year remained at the previous one and was about 25 tons. Portal Bank.ru Materials Rihanna.