The world embraced gold rush »

A similar interest in gold was seen only in more than 20 years ago. To date, buy gold all market participants: the investment funds and private investors and banks directly. And regarding the latter, make it as commercial lending institutions, and central banks. The last time a similar fashion to the gold was in the 80th years., Transmit Vedomosti, citing Financial Times, then the cost ounce broke the $ 700 that now would amount to $ 2,3 thousand shares were popular then, and immediately became the gold fall in price. Market reached its bottom in 1999, when commercial banks started to shut down for unnecessary storage, central banks massively rid of "gold" of assets, and the British Treasury announced the sale of half the gold reserves. At that time, an ounce was worth only $ 250. And in 2009, investors are once again drew attention to the "timeless values", since gold is rising again in value. On the eve of the price troy ounce reached a record $ 1320, but this is not the limit, experts said Bloomberg, in the III quarter of 2011 gold will cost $ 1350 per ounce, and conference participants in Berlin LBMA general predicted growth over year to $ 1.5 at However, some were talking about $ 2 thousand On the same figures and analysts say Barrick Gold, in their opinion, next year the gold easily overcome at least $ 1,5 thousand Who is buying? According to the World Gold Council, gold demand rose by about a third, in fact, his purchase was a world trend. Thus, according to BFM.ru, currently first in terms of gold in international reserves is the U.S. (8,133 tons), followed by Germany (3,406 tons) and Italy (2451 m). Russia is in the list on the 8 th position. Thus, over the past 12 months, the Central Bank has acquired nearly 150 tons of gold, increasing its gold reserve from 550 tons to 709.8 tons in percentage for the year the Bank of Russia has increased its assets by as much as 29% better performance only in the Indian central bank (56 %). However, most stocks have accumulated from private investors, Vedomosti. Now in their hands is concentrated 30 thousand tons of gold, or one sixth of the world's reserves. Such figures can not boast of even central banks, if, for example, all of their assets put together. What is most interesting, for 30 years, jewelers buy gold much more than investors, and suddenly the situation changed. So, in 2009, investment demand totaled 1,893 tons, and jewelry - 1759 m, in the middle of 2010 - 2789 and 2667 m, respectively. Do not sit on the ground, and commercial banks. According to the "Marker", only the last three months Sberbank bought 6.7 tonnes of gold, now it is approaching the total number to 18 m. In terms of percentages Sberbank increased its gold reserves by 62%, "MDM Bank" - 131%, VTB - 150%, and "Nomos-bank" - and at 272%.