Investors' gold holdings at Deutsche Boerse climb to 216.9 tonnes

BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Investors' gold holdings at Deutsche Boerse, the Frankfurt-based marketplace organizer for the trading of shares and other securities, went up by almost 7 percent year-on-year and stood at 216.9 tonnes at the end of last year, the German company said on Tuesday.

With assets under custody amounting to 10.7 billion euros (13.14 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of last year, the so-called Xetra-Gold was the "leading physically backed gold security in Europe," Deutsche Boerse noted.