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'Buy Gold on Today's Fed Rate Hike' Traders Told as 2016 Path Seen Dovish, 'Very Short' Market Jumps

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 7:10

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Adrian Ash is head of research at BullionVault, the world-leading gold trading & ownership service online…

BUY GOLD prices jumped near 1-week highs and better against all major currencies in London on Wednesday, regaining the $1070 per ounce level in US Dollar terms ahead of today’s long-awaited decision on interest rates from the Federal Reserve.

Western stock indices also moved higher – as did silver, gaining 3.3% from Monday’s fresh 2009 low of $13.65 per ounce as other industrial commodities gained from this week’s multi-year lows – after trading “quietly” according to one Asian bullion desk “ahead of one of the most anticipated FOMC meetings in recent history.”

That phrase was last used by financial writers everywhere to describe the Fed’s September meeting, when the US central bank surprised many traders and analysts by voting to hold its target for the Fed funds rate between zero and 0.25% yet again.

Betting in the futures market meantime put the odds of a 0.25% lift-off from that 7-year range at better than four-in-five Wednesday morning.

“I would look to buy dips on gold straight after the rate decision,” says David Govett at brokers Marex Spectron, also in London, “and wait for a rally afterwards.

“The [speculative] market is very, very short and in the absence of any further hawkish news, I think we may well see a bout of short covering.”

“Gold may drop in an initial reaction to a hike,” agrees bullion market-maker HSBC’s precious metals team.

“But as the hike is generally expected, we believe any sell-off may be relatively short-lived,” it goes on echoing comments from FX analysts at bank from BNP Paribas to ICBC Standard Bank that Fed chair Janet Yellen will strike a “dovish” tone regarding 2016 rate hikes in her post-decision press conference.

“We suspect the Dollar will struggle in the wake of the Fed’s decision,” says a note from US brokers INTL FCStone, “and are therefore looking for a firmer tone in most commodity markets.

“Gold however could be on a different track [because while] a very dovish Fed policy statement should help, bulls should nevertheless be wary about a surging US equity market and the knock-over selling that this might generate.”

Moreover, INTL FCStone’s note goes on, the gold bullion market continues to lack new investment through gold ETF trust fund products, “and jewelry demand remains fairly soft” with local prices to buy gold in India – the world’s largest consumer market – falling to a discount versus wholesale London quotes “as jewellers and dealers postpone purchases ahead of [the] expected hike in US rates.”

Looking to the path of rate hikes in 2016, “The only thing we can say with some confidence,” writes Swiss bank UBS’s former chief economist George Magnus, “is that the Fed won’t be able to give itself enough monetary policy ammunition to cut rates aggressively next time the economy lapses into a recession.

“But you have to start somewhere.”

“We will soon face another crash – indeed we are now closer to the next slump than the last one,” writes financial author and UK economics correspondent Ed Conway in The Times.

“No one knows what will trigger it: maybe higher interest rates; maybe a return of the Euro crisis; maybe China or emerging markets.”

With today’s Fed decision and press conference not finished until well past dinner-time in London, “It’s going to be a long day,” complains one market-making bullion bank’s sales desk in a note, adding that “the recent move by the People’s Bank of China on Monday to fix the Yuan at a new low is adding more uncertainty.”

Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at the UK’s leading financial advisory for private investors, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault – winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, 2009 and now backed by the mining-sector’s World Gold Council research body – where you can buy gold today vaulted in Zurich on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.

Source: https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/gold-fed-121620153

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