The sole objective of this article is to help investors make money on gold while staying politically neutral, so I am arguing neither for Donald Trump nor for Hillary Clinton as the next president of the U.S.
A call from ABN Amro on July 22 for gold to rise to $1,850 an ounce if Trump becomes president made eye-catching headlines. (Gold traded at about $1,328 on July 26.) The Netherlands-based bank said a Trump presidency would weaken the fundamentals of the U.S. economy and, thus, drive up the price of gold.
Not so fast, ABN Amro. There is a contrasting scenario in which a Trump presidency would strengthen the U.S. economy and drag down the price of gold to $850 an ounce.
I am not for or against those two scenarios. This is not out of choice, but rather because there is no credible hard data to support either one with reasonable certainty. My longtime readers know that one of my main investing principles, which has come to be affectionately known as Nigam’s Second Law of Investing, is that no one knows with certainty what is going to happen next at any given time.
A big part of our research at The Arora Report is devoted to precious metals. Our algorithms work on hard data, and there simply is not enough of it to predict who will be the next president and, furthermore, what will happen to gold during the next president’s term…Read more at MarketWatch
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