| The second tranche of India's sovereign gold bond received a better response than the first, a government official said, as a price discount and its safe haven appeal amid a slide in equities attracted investors. The world's second biggest gold consumer plans to sell 150 billion rupees in bonds linked to the metal in the financial year ending March 31, to wean investors off buying physical gold and stem the outflow of foreign exchange spent on gold imports.
In the second tranche, 316,000 applications were received for 2,790 kg of gold worth 7.26 billion Indian rupees ($106 million), far higher than the 62,169 applications for the first tranche for 915.953 kg of gold in November...............................................Full Article: Source
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