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Iran's gold demand set to spurt before Trump sanctions bite

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Claudia Carpenter
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Iran's gold demand will probably be "strong" for the next few months and then gradually decline as U.S. sanctions start to take effect, according to the researcher who covers the country for Metals Focus Ltd.

After a previous set of sanctions was imposed on Iran in 2012, it took two years for the country's gold demand to start falling, according to data from the World Gold Council. It sank to only 45.1 tons by 2016, the lowest in at least six years and 65 percent lower than in 2013, according to gold council data. It rose to 64.5 tons last year.

"People will try to convert whatever they have into dollars or gold or whatever is of value that's not going to depreciate," Cagdas Kucukemiroglu, an analyst at London-based Metals Focus, said Wednesday by phone. "Then next year the demand will gradually start to go down but it's not going to be drastic. The base is already very low." ...

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