{"id":697326,"date":"2010-03-22T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/citi-etfs-gold-holdings-start-to-slip-2010-3"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:37:49","slug":"citi-etf-gold-holdings-slipping-demand-starts-to-wane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697326","title":{"rendered":"Citi: ETF Gold Holdings &#8220;Slipping&#8221;, Demand Starts To Wane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citi&#8217;s Alan Heap notes that &#8216;Speculators are turning bearish and net longs are contracting.&#8217; for commodities overall. In particular, &#8216;Gold ETF positions are slipping from a high level&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba7437b7f8b9aec16030500-450-\/chart.png?w=450\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Net long positions for gold have come off substantially in 2010, as shown in yellow below:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba744137f8b9a0937aa0400\/chart.png?w=450\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Via Citi, Commodity Heap, Alan Heap, 19 March 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/citi-etfs-gold-holdings-start-to-slip-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-closes-in-the-green-after-spending-a-day-in-the-red-2010-3\">Dow Closes In The Green After Spending A Day In The Red<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-market-recap-equities-fall-harder-after-dodds-speech-2010-3\">Mid-Day Market Recap: Equities Fall Harder After Dodd&#8217;s Speech <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-market-recap-stocks-up-volume-light-as-traders-await-fed-announcements-2010-3\">Mid-Day Market Recap: Stocks Up, Volume Light As Traders Await Fed Announcements<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/3Y3bAF6QyAc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi&#8217;s Alan Heap notes that &#8216;Speculators are turning bearish and net longs are contracting.&#8217; for commodities overall. In particular, &#8216;Gold ETF positions are slipping from a high level&#8217;: Net long positions for gold have come off substantially in 2010, as shown in yellow below: (Via Citi, Commodity Heap, Alan Heap, 19 March 2010) Join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vpc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798680,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697326\/revisions\/798680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}