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Gold Price Slips Despite Vix Volatility Jump, Hedges Equity Risk 'When You Need It'

Tuesday, 9/13/2016 14:10
GOLD PRICES slipped back towards yesterday's 1-week low of $1321 per ounce Tuesday in London even as world stockmarkets fell with commodities and the US Vix volatility index rose once again.
 
Gold prices rallied late Monday after US Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard called for further delays to a second Fed rate hike, rather than switching from 'dove' to 'hawk' ahead of next week's September meeting and decision.
 
Asian stockmarkets failed Tuesday to extend Wall Street's post-Brainard rally, and European equities reversed earlier gains as New York re-opened.
 
Government bond prices paused their rally after Friday and Monday's hard sell-off, capping 10-year US Treasury yields at their highest level since the UK's shock Brexit referendum result of late June at 1.67%.
 
"Wall Street's 'fear gauge' has jumped to the highest since late June," notes Jonathan Butler, precious metals strategist at Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, referring to the 'Vix' volatility index of US equity options traded on the CBOE exchange.
 
"[Yet] gold has failed to benefit much...perhaps indicating that despite an equity market sell-off many investors see gold as susceptible to central bank policy."
 
Chart of the Vix volatility index vs gold prices, last 10 years, from St.Louis Fed
 
Volatility in US equities remains "unsustainably low" says finance giant Blackrock's head of asset allocation Russ Koesterich. "[So] I would be reluctant...to sell some or all of [my] holdings in the precious metal.
 
"Changes in the VIX Index – a measure of US equity volatility – explain nearly 20% of the variation in the relative return between gold and the S&P 500 Index," Koesterich explains, adding that on data back to 1994 "when volatility rose, gold outperformed the S&P 500 price return by roughly 2% on average."
 
Most notably, "Gold's value as a hedge has historically been most pronounced during those periods when you need it the most," Blackrock's analysis concludes, with gold beating the S&P 500 three-quarters of the time and by an average 5% when the Vix rose from already high levels.
 
Volatility today edged higher to read above 16 on the CBOE's Vix index, just below its 5-year average.
 
Gold traded 4% below its average daily price since this time in 2011.
 
With 10-year German Bunds meantime offering 0.02% annual yield to new buyers, the share of Eurozone government debt paying negative rates " has fallen back below 50% after a sell-off triggered by investor disappointment at the European Central Bank's meeting last week," says news-wire Reuters.
 
"That is down from 55% in early July [when] Britain's vote to leave the European Union posed a threat to global growth."
 
The recent sell-off in stocks and bonds marks "a loss of confidence in the ability of central banks...to regenerate inflation," says Harvard professor – and advocate of banning cash to enable more negative rates – Ken Rogoff, speaking to Bloomberg Television on Tuesday.
 
"It may be true that global risk sentiment remains broadly stable," says a gold investing recommendation from French bank Credit Agricole.
 
"[But] a large part of that stability was due to rising liquidity expectations [thanks to central bank QE and rate cuts] rather than better global growth prospects."
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Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the physical gold and silver market for private investors online. Formerly head of editorial at London's top publisher of private-investment advice, he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and is now a regular contributor to many leading analysis sites including Forbes and a regular guest on BBC national and international radio and television news. Adrian's views on the gold market have been sought by the Financial Times and Economist magazine in London; CNBC, Bloomberg and TheStreet.com in New York; Germany's Der Stern; Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore, and many other respected finance publications.

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