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France pulled all its gold from the NY Fed — and made $15 billion doing it

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 07, 2026
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France sold all 129 tonnes of gold it had stored at the New York Federal Reserve, then rebuilt its position by buying from other European central banks — booking a €13 billion capital gain in the process. Every ounce of French gold is now held domestically, deep in the vaults of La Souterraine, the Banque de France’s undergrou…

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