{"id":906,"date":"2013-08-22T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2013-08-22T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T02:34:53","slug":"consumer-demand-for-gold-up-53-in-q2-2013-led-by-strong-growth-in-china-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/consumer-demand-for-gold-up-53-in-q2-2013-led-by-strong-growth-in-china-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer demand for gold up 53% in Q2 2013 led by strong growth in China and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.org\/media\/press_releases\/archive\/2013\/08\/gdt_q2_2013_pr\/\">World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends report<\/a>, which covers the period April-June 2013, highlights how recent falls in the gold price have generated significant increases in demand, most notably from consumers in China and India &#8211; by far the biggest markets for gold &#8211; compared with the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, jewellery demand was up 37% in Q2 2013 to 576 tonnes (t) from 421t in the same quarter last year, reaching its highest level since Q3 2008. In China, demand was up 54% compared to a year ago; while in India demand increased by 51%. There were also significant increases in demand for gold jewellery in other parts of the world: the Middle East region was up by 33%, and in Turkey demand grew by 38%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends report, which covers the period April-June 2013, highlights how recent falls in the gold price have generated significant increases in demand, most notably from consumers in China and India &#8211; by far the biggest markets for gold &#8211; compared with the same time last year. Globally, jewellery [&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-906","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\/906","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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}