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submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

For more than a year, China's central bank has been buying up large amounts of gold. The move, along with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, have helped spike the price of the precious metal to new highs.

The price of gold broke the $2,300 (€2,212) level for the first time this week as geopolitical issues, expectations of US interest rate cuts and China's accumulation of the precious metal spurred interest from speculators.

Gold is seen by investors as a safe haven in times of turmoil and a hedge against currency devaluation, so the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have helped the recent price rise, along with the post-COVID inflation spike.

The move by China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBC), has been mirrored by other mostly emerging market central banks, who are all keen to up their gold holdings.

DW takes a look at why Beijing has gone on a gold-buying spree.

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[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The article goes over how it plans to counter the trade war with the US and potential economic sanctions. There has been talk in the past of a gold-back yuan. Not exactly a BRICS combined currency, but would likely be used by BRICS countries in competition with the US dollar.

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