Gold has been a store of wealth for millennia and in more recent times the price of gold has tended to move inversely with equities and dollars, providing investors with some diversification in their portfolios.
See: ‘Fragile’ Treasury market is at risk of ‘large scale forced selling’ or surprise that leads to breakdown, BofA says In a hypothetical example he wrote in a note dated Oct.14, an investor hoping to have $1,000 in “safe haven” in today’s money after 30 years has two options to invest. Either they can invest $1,000 in gold, or they can invest in a 30-year zero-coupon Treasury bond which offers a real yield of 2%. One day later, the real yield of the bond has fallen to 1.5%, which means they have to invest more in the bond for its real value at the end of the period to be the same.
Fed officials are barreling toward another interest-rate rise of 0.75 percentage point in their benchmark interest rate when they meet Nov. 1-2, but some have begun signaling whether and how to slow down the pace of increases soon, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Gold and the USD will rise together soon. You heard it here first.