Sales of gold bars went up around 400 percent in one week, the Polish Mint has reported.
Individual clients are investing in the more traditional commodities, with some buying up to a dozen kilograms or more at once.
Last week’s record was a client who bought 25 kg of gold, a Mint representative told the Parkiet daily. Such an amount of the precious metal is currently worth over 3 million zloty.
Ongoing financial trouble, escalated by Greece’s 110 billion euro bailout loan, has caused uncertainty in emerging markets, and with currency exchanges fluctuating, gold bars are often seen as a safe bet in times of economic uncertainty. (jb)
