Global Gold Index: New Record High

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The price of Gold just hit a new record high against the world’s top 10 currencies…

GOLD didn’t only break new Dollar highs last week.

Jumping to 8-month highs against the Euro, Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar, it also took out fresh records versus the Indian Rupee and Chinese Yuan.

And more critically still, gold broke new ground against the world’s major currencies en masse. Critically as in critical.

Buying 200 tonnes of metal from the IMF, the Reserve Bank of India sent gold to new highs in terms of all the money that counts at the start of November.

Weighted against the world’s top 10 currencies by GDP, the price of gold broke its previous high on Wednesday this week. Shown as a percentage change since Jan. 2000 above, BullionVault‘s Global Gold Index does indeed lag the Dollar price (244% vs. 289% to date), but it’s clearly beaten all other asset classes so far this decade.

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