{"id":177789,"date":"2026-09-17T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=177789"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:58:06","slug":"exchange-fund-could-buy-more-gold-to-boost-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=177789","title":{"rendered":"Exchange Fund could buy more gold to boost trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1870271_1_M_20260916152708.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Hong Kong is considering tapping into the Exchange Fund to buy more gold as part of efforts to boost trade in gold and transform the city into a world trading centre for the precious metal, according to Chief Executive John Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The fund serves as the city&#8217;s de facto sovereign wealth fund and war chest to defend the Hong Kong dollar&#8217;s peg to the US dollar&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1870271-20260916.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is considering tapping into the Exchange Fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}