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Here's Why Germany Suddenly Wants Its 674 Tons Of Gold Back

Here's Why Germany Suddenly Wants Its 674 Tons Of Gold Back
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CORRECTS TO GERMANY CENTRAL BANK -In this undated file picture publicly provided by German Central Bank, gold ingots, are stored at their headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. A German newspaper reports the country's central bank will repatriate parts of its massive gold reserves worth about US $200 billion at current market rates from storage sites in the United States and in France. Daily Handelsblatt reported Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 the Bundesbank plans to bring back to Germany some of its 1,500 tons of gold stored with the Federal Reserve in New York, and all of the 450 tons currently with the Bank of France in Paris. (AP Photo/hopd/Deutsche Bundesbank)

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Germany’s central bank will relocate 54,000 solid gold bars, worth about $36 billion, from deep underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France in Paris to the safe confines of German soil — vaults at the Bundesbank’s Frankfurt headquarters.

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