Gold’s Macro Fundamentals
Excerpted from the 31 page NFTRH 283 (dated 3.23.14), which also thoroughly analyzed the precious metals and several other markets from a technical standpoint.
Gold’s Macro Fundamentals
This spike in short-term yields (2-year shown) is what harpooned gold last week and finally got it under control.
More importantly, this spike in the 2-year vs. the 30-year really hurt gold.
These spikes predictably came as the FOMC successfully managed to get the market thinking about an end to the damaging Zero Interest Rate Policy, ZIRP.