1999–2002 sale of United Kingdom gold reserves
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1999-2002-sale-of-united-kingdom-gold-reserves-170-17982214
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1999–2002 sale of United Kingdom gold reserves
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The sale of UK gold reserves was a policy pursued by HM Treasury over the period between 1999 and 2002, when gold prices were at their lowest in 20 years, following an extended bear market. The period itself has been dubbed by some commentators as the Brown Bottom or Brown's Bottom. The period takes its name from Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who decided to sell approximately half of the UK's gold reserves in a series of auctions. This amounted to 395 tonnes of gold sold for a t
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Sale of half of the UK's gold reserves between 1999-2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932002_sale_of_United_Kingdom_gold_reserves
date created:
2009-11-03T18:53:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:00:45Z
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