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Gold Leasing/Central Bank Gold Sales
Most noticeable trend in the last 5 years has been the decline of lease rates. We have had an interesting inversion of the gold lease rate yield curve over the past 2 months which may have been caused by Central Bank leasing... (inversion i.e. 1 year gold lease rate higher than 6 month rate). Could possibly be related to Barclays comments, but in a different way? (leasing versus forward sales may be different?)

here are current long term lease charts
http://www.kitco.com/lease.chart.html

here is interesting article written in Jan 06 discussing lease rates. interesting article but not necessarily factual...?
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2006/0119.html

Have you seen any recent articles relating to this basserdan...?