The conventional view is that the price of gold will inevitably suffer large and sustained falls when the Fed begins to return US interest rates towards more normal levels. But while we would expect the initial reaction to the approach of the first hike to be negative, the turn in the US monetary policy cycle is unlikely to be the decisive factor for gold’s medium-term prospects that many assume.
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