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[FinancialAdvisor]

GLD VS. COUNTRIES RESERVES>>>

*RANKS A STUNNING 20th, like I said, GLD has more $GOLD in it's "stash" than many medium-sized countries and even some larger ones!!!>>>

September, 2005*  Tonnes	Gold as % of national reserves 
 1	United States	  8,133.50	63.8 
 2	Germany	          3,427.80	50.5 
 3	IMF	          3,217.30	N/A 
 4	France	          2,892.60	56.4 
 5	Italy	          2,451.80	56.7 
 6	Switzerland	  1,290.10	33.3 
 7	Japan	          765.2	        1.3 
 8	Netherlands	  722.4	        51.3 
 9	ECB	          719.9	        20.6 
 10	China	          600	        1.1 
 11	Spain	          493.3	        42.8 
 12	Taiwan	          423.3	        2.4 
 13	Portugal	  407.5	        54 
 14	Russia	          386.6	        3.6 
 15	India	          357.7	        3.6 
 16      Venezuela         357.4         17.6 
 17      United Kingdom    311.3         9.4 
 18      Austria           307.5         37.5 
 19      Lebanon           286.8         28.7 
 20      GLD               263.3         ----         
 21      Belgium           227.7         25.7 
 22      Philippines       187.9         187.9 
 23      BIS               185.3         N/A 
 24      Algeria           173.6         4.7 
 25      Sweden            155.4         9.1