Fire sales of gold have seemingly given way to safe-haven buying following yesterday’s unprecedented intervention by the Federal Reserve. Providing the Fed has injected sufficient liquidity to defend against a further collapse in equity prices, we expect the gold price to tread water. That said, the possibility of a deflationary cycle poses a major downside risk to our forecast.
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