Why Gold Prices Have Tanked Since the U.S.-Iran War

    WSJ’s Aaron Back explains why investors may still want to hold gold, despite its price declining since the Iran war began.

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    1. Gold is only bought when there is a lot of cash in the streets and people have more than they need. Gold has always been a terrible hedge, and always underperforms cash equivalents in the long-run, when compared to equities, you'd be better off buying boulders and putting them in your yard for resale in a decade than buying gold.

    2. Well well. The famed WSJ has forgotten one reason out of the few elaborated therein.
      It's an important one!

      And, that is why, I stopped buying gold last year.

    3. This guy is dead wrong. Maybe even lying. It’s due to the oil shock and countries left suddenly scrambling to obtain oil, oil that they need to buy with usd. So they need to sell assets like gold to build sufficient usd holdings. Fed rates don’t affect gold price but inflation does.

    4. Rapid high inflation will cause a recession. Then Fed will have to cut interest rate. Trump was actually right because he is a visionary while powell is not.

    5. You are completely wrong here. A lot of countries are selling their gild reserve for oil. The biggest example I can think of currently is turkey that has sold large amount of its good reserve for oil recently

    6. Propaganda. The sold Gold bc its liquid and easy to sell!! Weak hands are closer to being shaken out cpmpletely than not. The monetary situation across the globe is RIDICULOUS

    7. Welp, if things continue to progress as they have, food will be worth far more than gold. Cuz we're not going to have any, if we don't have fuel or other infrastructure to grow or move food from farms to cities!

    8. Nobody in there right mind considers a rare shiny metal that can be used as a jewelry as a investment 🤷‍♂️ it’s something that national banks has a traditional backer for the currency and some cultures with low trust, high corruption and weak institutions like India uses as an investment and a jewelry, because the government and institutions can’t be trusted. So if you live in a similar culture yes it has relevance, else a jewelry a wedding ring.
      It speculation not investment.

    9. Or just that this is the result of massive manipulation ?

      The idea that gold goes down because people are scared of inflation so the fed keeps interest rates level is such bunkum.

      Gold has always been acknowledged as the hedge AGAINST inflation as it maintains its buying power as currency over the long term.
      Whether interest rates are three or four percent is meaningless if inflation is running at five or ten percent or more as happened during COVID because that interest doesn’t even cover the depreciation of the value of the fiat currency that you hold.

      These “pundits” make up some explanation after the fact, and most of the time it doesn’t even make sense.
      Rare is the economist who actually does make sense, like Varouvakis. The rest of these people are snake-oil salesmen.

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