SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: PaulM who wrote (28660)2/20/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: GST  Respond to of 116892
 
Reducing leased gold would help crimp the hedge funds playing the currency market. This could be a 'quiet outcome' of the meeting which will only be heard in the markets as we move forward from here.



To: PaulM who wrote (28660)2/20/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116892
 
<<the "proposal supported by Britain and the U.S. to sell....IMF...gold reserves has met with fierce resistance from the German Central Bank">>

IMF gold sale must be approved by the US Congress. Labor is against it. Western Republicans around 3/4 of western Democrats are against it as are the middle western commodity producing states.

It is a no-go!