Thursday 5 February 2009

Goldman Sachs bullish on ‘currency of last resort’ gold

Don’t get Goldman Sachs wrong, the bank still believes gold is overvalued, however, in the near term, its commodities research team is raising its gold forecast:

We believe that these elements of financial and sovereign risk will likely remain a feature of the market over the near term, after which the gold price will likely trade back closer to the fair value currency basket. As a result, we are raising our 3-month ahead gold price forecast to $1000/toz from $700/toz, our 6-month forecast to $950/toz from $785/toz, and our 12- month forecast to $825/toz from $795/toz. Clearly, if financial risks as measured by the CDS spreads remain high, gold prices could remain higher for longer, presenting upside risk to our forecasts.

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