Gold ended down 2% today. It fell along with the rest of the stock market. The Dow was especially hit, finishing at the lowest point of the day and continuing the trend seen in Europe earlier. BNP Paribas made the news by announcing that it would suspend two funds made up of obligations affected by the US subprime mortgage market.
This is funny for me because I used to work for BNP Paribas in Paris, and it was not a very happy experience.
Meanwhile, it was announced that the ECB was injecting a record amount of liquidity in the money market. The highest since septembre 11.
This mortage crisis is turning into the beginning of a panic. But we will have to wait to see how it all turns out.
But I am convinced that in the medium term it will be good for Gold.
The Central banks will do anything to avoid a depression because this one would be a disaster.
They will have to relax their monetary policy further, until inflation becomes a real problem and at this point in a few years, Gold price will be much higher.
Right now , the FED, in particular onlly talks about fighting inflation, but won't be able to follow suit.
It talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk.
In the short run, Gold suffers, but we've seen this before in May 2006 ane February 2007, and it doesn't contradict the long term bullish trend for gold.
Right now with the panic that we see in the Stock Market, many forecasts emanating from the Gold bugs camp are realized and it can only reassure us of this investment in Gold.
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