LONDON, 4 March 2024 – Analysis, data and comment from BullionVault's research team today forms the heart of a look back to the UK's infamous 1999 gold sales from Telegraph Money, the financial pages of the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
25 years ago, "gold was increasingly being seen as a 'barbarous relic'," says The Telegraph, and the UK was far from alone in selling down its gold bullion reserves at the lowest prices in 2 decades.
So what made the UK's sales so controversial, even today? Read the full story at The Telegraph here:
Why Britain is still paying the price for Gordon Brown's gold bullion blunder