Although there was no evidence of that, the Bundesbank announced a plan to return enough of the gold so<br />that half the reserves would be stored at the central bank’s vaults in Frankfurt by 2020.<br />But the Bundesbank said on Thursday that it had completed a planned transfer of some $13 billion in gold bars<br />that for historical reasons, had been stored in vaults deep below Lower Manhattan.<br />After decades of being safeguarded overseas, the nation’s gold reserves — a large part of them, at least — are once again safe in Frankfurt.<br />Gold bars accounting for more than one-third of the total reserves will remain in New York; about 13 percent will stay in London.
