Central banks continue to snap up gold.

Oil Prices Go Down, Russia’s Gold Buying Goes Up by Jackie Northam

NPR – December 13, 2014

It’s been a rough ride for the Russian economy and it keeps getting worse. Low oil prices helped push the ruble to another record low on Friday. This spate of bad economic news is probably just accelerating an existing trend: Russia’s purchase of gold at an astounding rate….

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