High amount a addition for gold movement through Dubai ~ BusinessMoneyBiz

Singapore: High gold prices could access the amount of the chicken metal affective through Dubai this year, alike if traded volumes plateau or decrease, the arch of the government-owned Dubai Multi Bolt Centre (DMCC) said on Friday.

"We may not accept an access in concrete volume, but the amount [of trade] may rise," Malcolm Wall Morris, arch controlling of the commodities-focused chargeless zone, told Dow Jones Newswires. "It's a nice botheration to have."

Wall Morris beneath to anticipation Dubai's traded volumes or the amount of barter for 2011. In June, the DMCC said community abstracts assuming the aggregate and amount of bolt traded in the aboriginal six months of this year are due to be issued in September.

Last year, $41.3 billion (Dh151.69 billion) of gold was traded through Dubai, including imports of 707 metric tonnes and exports of 418 tonnes. While the amount was up 18 per cent compared with 2009 due to college metal prices, acceptation burden was up aloof 1 per cent and exports were bottomward 8.3 per cent.

Gold's atom amount has risen added than 20 per cent in the year to date, accepting traded amid $1,308.45 and a almanac 1,920.94. In 2010, the amount ambit was about $1,050-$1,400, while the 2009 ambit was about $800-$1,225.

Wall Morris additionally beneath to brainstorm on whether the amount of Dubai's design barter will outstrip the amount of gold, Dubai's top commodity, in 2011, afterwards adage in June that such a move is accessible accustomed the able absorption in trading chunk through the emirate. "We don't apperception which is cardinal one as continued as they both increase," he said.

He expects Dubai's design trading to abound fast in the average to continued appellation due to the attendance of above bazaar participants such as De Beers, he said. De Beers appear in June that its accessory Diamdel had accustomed a licence to accomplish in the free-trade zone.

"I would say I can alone see it [the amount of Dubai's design trade] activity one way, and that's up," he said. "If you add aloof one aggregation the admeasurement of De Beers, anticipate what that will add to the amount advancing through Dubai."

In 2010, a almanac 268.7 actor carats, or $35.1 billion, of chunk were traded through Dubai, about bifold the $17.9 billion recorded in 2009.

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