{"id":1088,"date":"2014-10-20T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T01:35:13","slug":"1088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/1088\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese buying gold and China&#039;s production decreases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When investors examine the gold withdrawal numbers coming out of China they see that the Chinese are certainly not abandoning gold as the price falls, but are instead, increasing their gold buying. That is a positive sign for gold investors as it shows that there is a real physical demand floor under the gold price at current levels &#8211; that is despite weak demand from Western investors.<\/p>\n<p>The second point for investors to ponder is that gold production growth is expected to decline as Chinese miners have a more difficult time producing as much of the easy fruit has already been picked. That is a trend we&#8217;ve been seeing all over the world and it shows that future demand for gold will have to be met from existing above-ground stocks &#8211; a positive development for investors that have long-term horizons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/2572885-chinese-gold-production-falling-as-physical-demand-jumps\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.cdn-seekingalpha.com\/uploads\/2014\/10\/18\/280094-14136518223767476-Hebba-Investments.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/2572885-chinese-gold-production-falling-as-physical-demand-jumps\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When investors examine the gold withdrawal numbers coming out of China they see that the Chinese are certainly not abandoning gold as the price falls, but are instead, increasing their gold buying. That is a positive sign for gold investors as it shows that there is a real physical demand floor under the gold price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}