{"id":697895,"date":"2010-03-22T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-coin-sales-plummet-in-europe-as-demand-weakens-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:19:30","slug":"gold-coin-sales-plummet-in-europe-as-demand-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697895","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coin Sales Plummet In Europe As Demand Weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4acf71220000000000ecbff8-307-230\/gold-coins.jpg?resize=307%2C230\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gold coins\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest marketer of gold coins, Vienna&#8217;s Muenze Oesterreich AG, plans to slash production by 32% next year as it predicts Europe&#8217;s financial woes will lessen demand for metals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commodityonline.com\/news\/Steep-fall-in-gold-coins-sales-in-Europe-26664-3-1.html\">Commodity Online<\/a>: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no more upward surge in gold price to titillate buyers,&rdquo; said Mr. Tattersall, who retires this year after more than two decades with the mint. &ldquo;A lot of people feel more relaxed about the economic crisis.&rdquo; For the whole of 2010, Tattersall said he expects the mint&rsquo;s sales to fall to 2006 levels, without providing figures. Austria&rsquo;s mint says it supplies about a fifth of the global gold-coin market and makes about half of all gold coins sold in Europe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-coin-sales-plummet-in-europe-as-demand-weakens-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\/chart-of-the-day-how-etfs-took-the-gold-market-hostage-and-wont-let-go-2010-3\">CHART OF THE DAY: How ETFs Took The Gold Market Hostage And Won&#8217;t Let Go<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/america-the-king-of-gold-china-the-pauper-2010-3\">America, The King Of Gold&#8230; China, The Pauper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stocks-post-solid-gains-after-fed-announcement-commodities-follow-suit-2010-3\">Stocks Post Solid Gains After Fed Announcement, Commodities Follow Suit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/qqOQJS5CNCs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest marketer of gold coins, Vienna&#8217;s Muenze Oesterreich AG, plans to slash production by 32% next year as it predicts Europe&#8217;s financial woes will lessen demand for metals. Commodity Online: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no more upward surge in gold price to titillate buyers,&rdquo; said Mr. Tattersall, who retires this year after more than two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-697895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vyn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697895","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}