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Physical gold demand slid to 7-year low in 2016, GFMS says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jan Harvey
Reuters
Thursday, January 26, 2017

LONDON -- Physical gold demand fell 20 percent last year to its lowest since 2009, GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters said in a report today, as a rebound in prices after three straight years of losses blunted appetite for the metal.

Buying of jewellery, coins, and bars, plus official sector and industrial demand, fell to 3,349 tonnes last year from 4,184 tonnes in 2015, the analysts said, the lowest in seven years.

That helped lift the net surplus in the gold market to 1,176 tonnes, up from just 220 tonnes in 2015 and the biggest physical surplus this century. ...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/gold-gfms-idUSL5N1FE622



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