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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 99.85+6.2%Nov 24 4:00 PM EST

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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (40998)9/27/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: goldsheet  Read Replies (3) of 116764
 
> I hope you and others speculate as to why the change
> in policy by Central Bankers?

Forget to answer this earlier, but I think Ron Struthers has it right, it is more a change in market perception than a change in policy.

Over the last ten years central banks, on average, have sold 300 tonnes per year, with a peak of 622mt in 1992. 1997 was 406mt, 1998 was 412mt, so announcing a cap of 400mt is confirming that they are going to kept doing what they have been doing all along. The Swiss, BOE and IMF pre-announcements got folks too worried and they overreacted to the downside.
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