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Author: Maria Sutt
Posted: Thursday , 11 Feb 2010
A confluence of technical factors suggest gold price support between $1,019/oz and $1,025/oz as outlook remains bearish, but CIC’s purchase of SPDR Gold Trust shares may represent the start of a more long term strategy.
China’s sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation has taken a $155 million stake in the SPDR Gold Trust. This underlines China’s voracious appetite for commodities and a desire to diversify its vast holdings of foreign exchange reserves which consist primarily of US dollars . This has led it to make its first investments in commodity-related exchange-traded funds and in the SPDR Gold Trust, the largest gold ETF. The stake of 1.45m shares is worth about $155.6m, or 0.4 per cent of the SPDR’s assets. It is a small investment considering the massive size of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund of some $300 billion but may represent the start of a more long term strategy to diversify into gold.
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