Bullish fundamentals for gold.16 Apr 2020 20:58
Investing.com -- Gold prices consolidated around the $1,750 mark on Thursday, extending a recent pattern that has seen them rally on risk-friendly news and outperform on more bearish developments.
Havens were in favor again after another immense number for U.S. initial jobless claims, which fell only slightly from the previous week to 5.245 million. The U.S. economy has now lost more than 20 million jobs in a month due to the pandemic.
Futures prices were supported by comments from the world’s biggest miner, Newmont Goldcorp (NYSE:NEM), whose chief executive Tom Palmer told Bloomberg in an interview that he saw prices of over $2,000 an ounce as possible, enabled by the extraordinary anti-crisis measures taken by governments and central banks in recent weeks.
“The level of stimulus globally that’s going into the economy certainly underpins higher gold prices for the longer term, and I don’t think that stimulus has stopped yet,” Palmer said. “You could certainly see scenarios that have it pushing north of $2,000.”