The gold was unloaded from a plane and taken under heavy guard to the Central Bank in the capital, Caracas.

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Frederico Sampaio, chief investment officer at Franklin Templeton Investments in Brazil, says despite a changing of the guard at the Central Bank and in the capital city of Brasilia, the big picture positives have not changed.

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Central banks want to be sure that any such bank can guard against any possibility of a systemic failure before they give it the nod.

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But, with two pale central characters, a prisoner-contestant named Pannonique and Zdena, a guard, that is not quite enough.

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China's central bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan said last month that he is on guard against inflation and that monetary policy is now "neutral, " after a slightly easy policy stance in the past year.

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