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China's retail paper gold ban will have limited impact on global gold market liquidity because affected trading represented only a small portion of total volume

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SOURCE EVIDENCE

"Trading conducted through the affected banking intermediaries accounted for only 4.88% of total SGE gold trading volume, based on the exchange's June fact sheet."

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