Categories:
General Market Commentary
/
Precious Metals
Topics:
General Market Commentary
/
General Precious Metals
Fundamentals to drive gold prices to $1,650 within 12 months - TD Securities
(Kitco News) Slowing global growth and geopolitical tensions will force the Federal Reserve to introduce more cuts in 2020, which will drive gold to $1,650 next year, according to TD Securities.
The bank has been bullish on gold throughout the year. In its latest forecast, TD Securities estimates gold at $1,550 in Q1 2020, $1,575 in Q2 2020, $1,625 in Q3 2020, and $1,650 in Q4 2020.
“The global economy is slowing, weighed down by trade and recent tightening, with Germany only one quarter worth of data away from a technical recession — a US-China ‘deal or no deal’ notwithstanding,” commodity strategists at TD Securities wrote this week. “It is also likely that after beating expectations since late-June, we are likely at a local maximum as markets have likely adjusted their expectations too positively, we are now due for disappointments on the data front.”
Lower growth and geopolitical tensions are likely to produce a more dovish Federal Reserve policies with rate cuts going into 2020, the strategists added.
“This short-term repo market turmoil prompted the U.S. central bank to inject just over $140 billion worth of liquidity into the market with a promise of more. The associated volatility before the intervention and the resulting speculation of systemic issues that may make it necessary to permanently expand the Fed's balance sheet, should also help to keep gold bid,” they said.