Central Banks Large Gold Buyers in April, Commodity Report by Leading Financial Newsletter Profit Confidential

Central banks bought another 70.3 tonnes of gold bullion in April and, according to Michael Lombardi, lead contributor to Profit Confidential, he believes that they will continue to pile into gold bullion.

“We’ll see how the rest of 2012 shapes up, but if central banks continue at this pace of gold bullion buying, they will surpass their record purchases of last year,” says Lombardi.

In the article, “Central Banks Buy Another 70.3 Tonnes of Gold Bullion in April,” Lombardi makes the case that, since gold bullion has never reached a bubble level in this current run, he thinks it can’t pop.

“Asian central banks and emerging economy central banks continue to lead the world in gold bullion purchases,” says Lombardi.

As the financial crisis in Europe continues to escalate and central banks including the U.K. and Japan continue to print money, Lombardi thinks that Asian central banks will buy gold bullion as currency instead of the euro, the yen or the pound, and as an insurance policy against another financial crisis and/or money printing.

“The Philippines was the largest purchaser by far in March 2012: 32 tonnes,” says Lombardi. “This was the largest addition to a country’s reserves since Mexico purchased 78 tonnes of gold bullion in early 2011. Twenty percent of the Philippines’ currency reserves now consist of gold bullion.”

Lombardi also notes that this is the seventh month in a row that the Philippines’ central bank has been buying gold bullion.

“Does it sound like a bubble if buyers are stepping in while gold prices decline?” asks Lombardi. “If it were a bubble, people would be selling as prices decline in the hopes of getting out at any price before prices completely collapse; that is the nature of bubbles.”

Lombardi thinks that central banks are using the recent drop in gold prices to accumulate.

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Michael Lombardi, MBA, the lead Profit Confidential editorial contributor, has just released his most recent update of Critical Warning Number Six, a breakthrough video with Lombardi’s current predictions for the U.S. economy, stock market, U.S. dollar, euro, interest rates and inflation. To see the video, visit http://www.profitconfidential.com/critical-warning-number-six.