Saturday, December 24, 2011

India Slows Rush for Gold

MUMBAI?Ravi Chaturvedi was looking forward to giving his wife a gold ring as an anniversary present this January.

But with gold prices stubbornly high in rupee terms, the 34-year-old bank manager says he has changed his mind: He now plans to give her a mobile phone.

It is a telling choice.

Many Indians are either scaling back or eliminating their gold purchases outright. The drop-off in demand is exposing cracks in what gold investors have traditionally perceived as a solid support for global prices.

With many of its religious and cultural traditions steeped in the precious metal, India historically has ...

MUMBAI?Ravi Chaturvedi was looking forward to giving his wife a gold ring as an anniversary present this January.

But with gold prices stubbornly high in rupee terms, the 34-year-old bank manager says he has changed his mind: He now plans to give her a mobile phone.

It is a telling choice.

Many Indians are either scaling back or eliminating their gold purchases outright. The drop-off in demand is exposing cracks in what gold investors have traditionally perceived as a solid support for global prices.

With many of its religious and cultural traditions steeped in the precious metal, India historically has ...

Source: http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7013/~3/Al4jRdTlbCs/SB10001424052970204058404577111194291686190.html

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