Germany announced last week that the Bundesbank would begin repatriating gold reserves held overseas. The central bank said it wanted to keep more than 50% of its gold reserves at home, up from slightly less than one-third currently. The Bundesbank will move all its gold reserves now held in Paris back to Germany and reduce its reserves held in New York City.
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I find this trend somewhat disturbing.
I also recently read (and now cannot relocate) an article that said that the CEOs of thge USA's six major banks are not buying their own company's stocks (typically they do regularly) and are infact quietly dumping their shares.
Anybody want to venture a guess what , if anything, these two events mean?