The Precious Metals Are The Market Story Of The Year So Far
By Dave Kranzler
GoldSeek.com
Thursday, 28 April 2016
“Short gold on market overreaction” – Jeffrey Currie on CNBC on Feb 16, 2016; CNBC host: “Is there any commodity that you can recommend to help our viewers make money?” Jeffrey Currie: “Short gold” – CNBC on April 5, 2016;
Goldman Sachs’ Jeffrey Currie has become the “Jim Cramer” of the gold market (click on graph to enlarge). When he issues a table-pounding call, do the opposite. When gold was approaching its bottom around the $1050 level, Currie’s price target was $800. Much the same way Wall Street banks like Goldman, with AAPL at $96 and down 27% since July have been forced to lower their price target from $200 to $150, Currie was forced to raise his price target for gold to $1080. And he’s still pounding table with a “short gold” advisory. I guess when he receives a taxpayer-subsidized seven-figure bonus every year, he doesn’t mind looking like a total idiot with regard to the market.
To be sure, there’s several developments that warrant designation as the market story of the year so far. The shocking performance of the stock market would likely get the nod except for the now-obvious fact that the Federal Reserves continuous intervention is the force behind the stock market’s buoyancy. In relation to the true underlying fundamentals, perhaps the only two markets in history that have been more irrational are the Dutch tulip bulb mania of the 1630’s and the Weimar Republic stock market from 1914 – 1923.
Without a doubt in my mind, the move up in the precious metals sector since January 20th is the market story of the year so far. What makes this even more remarkable is the relentlessness of the move despite the obvious repetitious attempts by the Federal Reserve/bullion banks to push the price of gold/silver lower with fraudulent Comex paper derivatives, as evidenced by the rapidly escalating amount of paper gold/silver contracts printed and sold into the “market.” The open interest of paper in relation to the amount of underlying deliverable physical gold/silver on the Comex has been multiplying recently at a geometric rate.
This rise in the price of gold/silver has ensued despite a plethora of skepticism from even the traditionally bullish precious metals-investing analysts. Most market prognosticators – and I’m more less guilty of this myself – have been forecasting a sharp pullback/correction in response to market technicals which heretofore have signaled the imminence of a massive bullion bank price attack.
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