G20 supports IMF's plan to sell 403 tons of gold

From MarketWatch:

Leaders from the Group of 20 nations Thursday endorsed the International Monetary Fund's plan to sell 403 tons of gold to raise funds to support the world's poorest countries.

The announcement from G20 leaders helped add pressures to Thursday's gold trading. Gold futures fell $20.30, or 2.2%, to $905.80 an ounce in recent trading on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. See Metals Stocks.

The G20 vowed in its statement to "use the additional resources from agreed IMF gold sales for concessional finance for the poorest countries."...MORE