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Frank Holmes: Gold has been a great store of value amid the 'everything selloff'

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Frank Holmes
U.S. Global Investors, San Antonio, Texas
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

"Gold is no longer a safe haven." 

"Gold isn't an effective hedge against inflation." 

"Gold is dead."

You may have heard and read these comments, and others like it, numerous times over the course of the recent "everything selloff." This is staggeringly shortsighted to me. Gold is down only around 9.5% for the year despite surging bond yields and despite the U.S. dollar being at its strongest level ever relative to other major currencies.

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Given these incredible headwinds, you would expect gold to have lost far more of its value than it has. But compared to other assets, from stocks to bonds to digital currencies, the yellow metal has been remarkably resilient.

And that's gold priced in the U.S. dollar. When we price it in other currencies, gold has done even better, since many currencies have declined significantly in value relative to the greenback. This week the British pound fell to an all-time low against the dollar, as did the Chinese renminbi.

Of the various gold prices shown in the chart below, only two -- those priced in the dollar and Brazilian real -- were negative for the year as of September 27. The others, including gold priced in the Canadian dollar, were positive. ... 

... For the remainder of the analysis:

https://www.usfunds.com/resource/gold-has-served-as-an-impressive-store-of-value-during-the-current-everything-selloff/

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