Shanghai Gold Exchange deliveries totaled 39.6 tonnes.
This is by far the largest amount of gold bullion transactions on the exchange this year.
Does price really matter? Perhaps to some.
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"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles."
Hillaire Belloc