Venezuelan central bank to increase gold purchases
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Submitted by cpowell on 02:33PM ET Friday, March 5, 2010.
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Daily Dispatches By Corina Rodriguez Pons
Bloomberg News
Friday, March 5, 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=awESVDHFnzbQCARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's central bank will boost its gold reserves
this year and will buy more than half the estimated 20 metric tons of domestic
production, bank director Jose Khan said today at an event in Caracas.
The central bank, which has about $16 billion of its $30.6 billion of
reserves in gold, purchased 1.08 tons of gold from domestic mines in the first
two months of this year after buying just 2 tons in all of 2009, said Khan, one
of five directors at the country's monetary authority.
"We're going to increase our gold reserves and buy more local production,"
Khan said today. "Our objective is to increase reserves and help develop the
local gold industry."
Venezuela's central bank is planning to provide $250 million of financing for
gold production this year in an attempt to boost non-oil exports. The bank,
along with the Mining Ministry, plans to build a gold refinery, bank President
Nelson Merentes told reporters March 3, without providing details.
Gold futures for April delivery rose $2.10, or 0.2 percent, to $1,135.20 an
ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The metal
gained 1.5 percent this week.
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