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Column: Copper’s early-year rally leaves investors unimpressed
Doctor Copper has started 2025 with a spring in his step after a year when the early bull party was followed by a prolonged hangover.
The Swiss National Bank said Tuesday it lost US$20 billion in the second quarter of this year due to the significant drop in the value of its gold reserves.
Despite the negative figure, the Zurich-based institution reported a profit of $6.2 billions for the first half of 2013, driven mainly by a stronger US dollar and a higher euro.
SNB’s gold reserves have been the subject of intense political discussions in recent months, which ended up with the right-wing parties forcing a future referendum to force the bank double its current gold holdings to 20% of its total assets.
SNB remarked its results depend greatly on markets variations, so “strong fluctuations” can be expected and “only provisional conclusions” are possible regarding full-year earnings.
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The Swiss National Bank should be buying gold now so they can show a profit when the price rises.