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