{"id":11256,"date":"2024-04-05T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:24:44","slug":"uzbekistan-stal-mirovym-liderom-po-prodazhe-zolota-v-fevrale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/uzbekistan-stal-mirovym-liderom-po-prodazhe-zolota-v-fevrale\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan became the world leader in gold sales in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>In February, Uzbekistan took first place in gold sales in the world, the correspondent of &#8220;Gazeta.uz&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazeta.uz\/ru\/2024\/04\/03\/gold\/\">reports<\/a>, citing to the World Gold Council.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to public data, global central bank gold reserves rose by 19 tons in February. But the volume of precious metal purchases was 58% lower than in January (45 tons). On a year-on-year basis, central banks reported a 64-tonne increase in gold reserves for January and February, down 43% from the same period in 2023 but four times higher than in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The People&#8217;s Bank of China was the biggest buyer this month, increasing its gold reserves by 12 tons to 2,257 tons. Taking into account February, the PBOC&#8217;s gold reserves have grown for 16 months in a row, although the share of gold in total reserves remains at around 4%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The National Bank of Kazakhstan increased its gold reserves by 6 tons in February, and India acquired the same amount (total reserves: 817 tons).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Data from the National Bank of Kyrgyzsatan showed its gold reserves rose by more than 1 ton in February, with net purchases since the start of the year at 2 tons. Total gold reserves are now estimated at almost 24 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There were two major sellers in\u00a0February. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan reduced its gold reserves by 12 tons over the month, and the Central Bank of Jordan by 4 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2023, Uzbekistan became the second largest seller of gold in the world. Net sales of gold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spot.uz\/ru\/2024\/02\/05\/gold-sales-23\/\">amounted<\/a> to more than 25 tons, twice as low as Kazakhstan, which took first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazeta.uz\/ru\/2024\/03\/27\/trade\/\">According to the Statistics Agency<\/a>, in February Uzbekistan sold gold worth $1.32 billion, which is 11.5% more than supplies in January-February 2023 ($1.18 billion).<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Uzbekistan took first place in gold sales in the world, the correspondent of &#8220;Gazeta.uz&#8221; reports, citing to the World Gold Council. According to public data, global central bank&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11257,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions\/11257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}