hammer meldung, die bis jetzt noch nicht ihre volle wirkung entfaltet hat:
vor 3 tagen wurde ein Research von UBS teilweise in der FT veröffentlicht.
notenbanker aus 80 ländern wurden gefragt, welches die zukünftige reservewährung ist:
Favorit war Gold.
im sept 2009 löste die Nachricht, dass Indiens zentralbank 200 tonnen iwf gold gekauft hat,
eine rally aus.
dass schon jetzt notenbanker en masse gold als zukünftige reservewährung sehen ist ein absoluter hammer:
aber zu den details:
a) indirekte quelle, euro pacific capital
Über ein weiteres unheilvolles Zeichen für den US-Dollar wurde am Mittwoch von der Financial Times berichtet. Die ausländischen Zentralbanken, die auf den Märkten zwei Jahrzehnte lang als Nettoverkäufer von Gold agierten, sind nun zu Nettokäufern geworden. Mehr als die Hälfte der von der UBS befragten Beamten aus Zentralbanken erklärten, sie würden nicht davon ausgehen, dass der USD im Jahre 2035 noch die Weltreservewährung sei. Unter den vorhergesagten Währungen, die den Platz des US-Dollars einnehmen würden, waren asiatische Währungen sowie der Euro zu finden, wobei Gold jedoch– mit Abstand – als absoluter Favorit gehandelt wurde.
original text der FT aus UK.
Central banks see growing reserve asset role for gold
By Jack Farchy and Javier Blas in London
Published: June 23 2010 03:00 | Last updated: June 23 2010 03:00
Nearly a quarter of central banks believe gold will become the most important reserve asset in the next 25 years, according to an annual poll by UBS.
The result highlights the sea-change in attitudes in the official sector towards the yellow metal.
For two decades, central banks were net sellers of gold but that trend has reversed as central banks in Europe are scaling down their sales and others, such as China, India and Russia, are making significant purchases.
Asked what the most important reserve asset would be in 25 years, about half of officials polled by UBS said the US dollar but 22 per cent pointed to gold.
Bullion was the second most popular response, well above others such as Asian currencies or the euro.
UBS surveyed more than 80 central bank reserve managers, sovereign wealth funds and multilateral institutions with over $8,000bn in assets at its annual seminar for sovereign institutions last week. The results were not weighted for assets under management.
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The reversal of the trend of central bank gold sales has boosted sentiment towards the metal while removing a significant source of supply.
That has helped prices rise 12.5 per cent since the start of the year, hitting a nominal all-time high of $1,264.90 a troy ounce on Monday.
The central bank managers believe gold will be the best-performing asset class in the next six months, ahead of equities, bonds, oil and currencies, according to the poll.
Despite their bullish sentiment towards gold, sovereigns are unlikely to start making large-scale purchases, said Terrence Keeley, global head of sovereign client services at UBS.
"Reserve managers operate at one speed above reverse," he said. "Decisions to change their investment practices will be taken after great consideration over a long period."
Sovereign wealth funds are also turning their attention to gold. China Investment Corporation, Beijing's sovereign wealth fund, earlier this year revealed a small investment in bullion through the New York-listed SPDR Gold Trust, an investment vehicle backed by physical gold.
Bankers said other SWFs, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, were looking at gold.
GFMS, the precious metal consultancy, estimates central banks last year sold 41 tonnes of gold, down 82 per cent from the low of 2008 and the lowest in 20 years.
Philip Klapwijk, chairman of GFMS, said central banks were more likely to be buyers than sellers for the first time in two decades. But he said: "I will be surprised if we see multi-hundred tonnes purchases."
There has not been a sustained period of significant central bank gold purchases since the 1960s.
About 10 per cent of global central bank reserves is held in gold, according to the World Gold Council, but that belies a sharp difference between central banks in developed economies, which generally hold more than 50 per cent of assets in gold, and those in emerging markets, which have a relatively small proportion of assets in gold.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010.