The nation’s top retailer of gold ingots said Thursday it logged a 3.17-fold surge in sales in the January-June period from a year earlier on a quantitative basis.
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo attributed the sharp increase to high levels of “cashability” during the period, meaning that gold was easily exchanged for cash, allied to the international marketability of gold ingots.
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