Indicative Price to buy (Sat 10.40am NZ time):
1 oz Gold bar: $2152.80 1 kg silver bar: $1432.05

Russia also ready to abandon the dollar

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin annouced this week they are ready to consider using the Chinese and Russian national currencies when doing oil and gas deals with China, instead of the US dollar.  They will join Brazil who recently agreed to trade with China in yuan (chinese currency) instead of dollars.  Along with the annoucement last month from Iran...