Jon Nadler
Jon Nadler
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The trigger fingers hovering over all of the instability-sensitive commodity 'buy' buttons (gold, oil, etc.) are as jittery as ever.
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Increases in oil inventories and a firmer dollar put a dent into gold prices early Tuesday. Gold fell about 1% before recovering slightly and stabilizing.
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We saw little evidence yesterday that the Godzilla-size footprints of funds bailing out of gold was present. We did see evidence overnight that millions of tiny (individual-investor) footprints make for an equal-size impact on gold -- in the opposite direction.
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We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.