Gold
Central-bank gold sales plunge
Official sector sells 73% less gold in six months to June than in the first half of 2008
Uncertainty clouds Italian gold tax
Silvio Berlusconi says gold levy criticised by ECB could be changed but Italian daily reports government plans to pass the tax in its current form
Gold is special
International Monetary Fund investigates how macroeconomic announcements affect commodity prices
Frankfurt forces Rome gold backtrack
Government changes plans for a new tax on central bank gold sales
Italy to amend tax on gold on ECB opinion
Rome set to cut tax on gold after European Central Bank challenges levy
Ten heroes of monetary gold
Timothy Green, a journalist who has written about gold for 40 years, lists the ten individuals and institutions that have most shaped the precious metal's monetary history
China should focus on gold not SDRs: Hanke
China would be better off promoting gold rather than special drawing rights (SDRs) as a global reserve currency, a prominent economist has argued.
Sell to central bank: Caracas tells gold producers
The Venezuelan government said on Monday that local gold manufacturers must triple the amount that they offer for sale to the country's central bank.
China stockpiling gold
China has increased its gold reserves by 76% since 2003, said Hu Xiaolian, a vice president of People's Bank of China and the administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, on Friday.
Swiss National Bank - Annual Report 2008
The Swiss National Bank's balance sheet substantially lengthened in 2008, notes the central bank's latest Annual Report.
Bundesbank makes biggest profit since 2001
The Bundesbank posted €6.3 billion ($8 billion) profit last year, it emerged on Tuesday.
Floating rates worth weight in gold for Germany
German society was better off under the floating exchange-rate regime than during the pre-first world war classical gold standard period, finds a paper by Michael Bordo and Bernhard Eschweiler for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Gold standard and price-level targeting
A new paper from the Bank of Canada compares the gold standard and with price-level targeting regime.
ECB sells 30 tonnes of gold
The European Central Bank (ECB) sold 30 tonnes of gold on 30 June.
Cyprus refuses to sell gold
The Central Bank of Cyprus has rejected government calls to sell its remaining supplies of gold.
Finland to showcase 100 kilo gold coin
The Bank of Finland's museum is to display the world's largest gold coin for one day only.
Ethiopia makes arrests over fake gold scandal
Ethiopian anti-corruption officials arrested 26 people in connection with the discovery of 90 kilos of fake gold in the central bank's vaults.
G7 ministers discuss IMF gold sales
"There was an acceptance among the G7 that resources should be raised by selling gold," said Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy's finance minister, who is also the head of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) steering committee (IMFC).
Cyprus and Malta join gold agreement
Cyprus and Malta, the two newest members of the eurozone, have signed up to the Central Bank Gold Agreement, which limits the amount of gold cooperating institutions can sell.
Gold rises to 27-year high
Gold reached a 27-year high on Monday as oil hit $85 per barrel and the dollar weakened further.
Sales remain within Gold Agreement Limit
Gold sales by the 16 signatories to the Central Bank Gold Agreement between 27 September 2006 and 26 September 2007 amounted to 475.75 tonnes, 24.25 tonnes shy of the 500 limit, the Bank for International Settlements said on Wednesday.
Currency diversification by Central Bank of Russia
The Central Bank of Russia has added the Swiss franc to the currency composition of its foreign exchange reserves and is considering other plans to diversify their structure, Alexei Ulyukayev, its first deputy chairman, has said.
Central bank gold sales to approach limit
Members of the central bank gold agreement (essentially the eurozone plus Sweden and Switzerland) have sold 396 tonnes in the first 10 months of the "gold year", as much as the total for the whole of last year.
Gold and inflation - BoC paper
In this Bank of Canada Working Paper, the authors find that the gold price "contains significant information for future inflation for several countries, especially for those that have adopted formal inflation targets."