Dollar beware: Serbia & Philippines join global gold hunt

in #gold5 years ago

Two more nations, Serbia and the Philippines, have boosted their national gold reserves. They follow a global trend of other central banks accumulating bullion in a move seen as a shift away from the US dollar standard.

Belgrade will increase its gold reserves from 20 to 30 tons by the end of this year, according to Serbian media company Vecernje Novosti. It said the country plans to boost its holding to 50 tons by the end of 2020 as a safety measure. Statistics from the National Bank of Serbia show foreign exchange reserves are currently worth €11 billion.

The decision to beef up bullion reserves was reportedly made following this month’s meeting of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić with an IMF delegation. The fund’s representatives told the president they’d approve of Belgrade’s gold-buying if it fits into Serbia’s strategy of increasing foreign exchange reserves.

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this news is not in our news outlets here in the philippines.

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Gold would be a lucrative investment at the moment since more and more country are trying to amass it.

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How exactly does that work.... let's see, print worthless fiat paper and buy gold. Seems reasonable to me.

They should have bought bitcoin. So their actually not so smart.

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