Booking for judgements regarding the Gold Rally

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Since Donald Trump’s reelection, or at least the release date, the US dollar reserve assets status has been sued between economists and columnists. And it’s hard to claim that its brilliance has fallen out.

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Still, as Mainft reported Wednesday, it is the euro that has been overtaken by gold as the second largest central bank reserve asset.

Certainly, it is easy to dismiss the change in rank as a function of what is called “mathematics.” Both Gold and Euro began the year with a reserve stock that is not one million miles from each other, and after a 30% rally, shiny metal came to the top.

However, some explanation for the surge in gold prices lies at the feet of the central bank itself. For the third year in a row, they have accounted for more than a fifth of the total gold demand.

Why does that happen?

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Inflation-related bonds and gold may both be referred to as “portal assets.” Lower bond yields related to inflation are usually associated with higher gold prices and vice versa. They compete with each other in the portal asset space.

Therefore, the breakdown between the two series could represent a fundamental shift in expectations that the US government is good for their debt. Or it could simply be a breakdown of what appears to be a grand sweep of history.

But, as we will not forget, Russia saw the exchanged reserves of foreign countries that had frozen after the invasion of Ukraine. From a Russian perspective, the US government (and the EU and various other governments) doesn’t seem to be good for their debts.

The ECB believes that more than half of the increase in official gold reserves have been accumulated by the Russian central bank since its invasion by Crimea in 2014. RandEurope points out that the entire National Welfare Fund was transferred to Yuan (60%) and gold (40%) before the Ukraine invasion.

When asked about the rationale for retaining gold in a World Gold Council study, the fifth emerging market reserve manager cited “Forecasting Changes in the International Monetary System.” That sounds suspicious Goldbug-y.

However, looking at the charts, more than a quarter of them seem to be holding their money out of concern over sanctions freezing reserves.

Will Gold continue to rise among the reserve managers and knock King Dollar off the throne? We can see if countries that are worried about being approved will continue to be allocated. And if China moves to shiny metal with purpose, all bets will be off.

Within the central banks of developed countries, we doubt there is a major change in the cards. A central banker who was adding money to the reserve mix told OMFIF:

Generally, it is an asset class that is very difficult to manage, mainly because no one knows why prices move.

This strikes us as a refreshing and honest view of gold-price drivers. It is also a good argument for the allocation of money by advanced economy central bankers who are not trying to take punts in the direction of Western sanctions on the country’s foreign exchange reserves.

There are many problems with the euro, but it has a deep capital market, making up about a third of the world’s foreign exchange settlements, and is a half-collected currency for imports from non-Eurozone countries into the eurozone, and three-fifths of export currency for countries outside the eurozone. Additionally, there are central banks who are committed to solving financial problems and are used to the rule of law.

Given that central bankers’ work involves avoiding system collapse, the euro, rather than positioning, appears to be a more natural destination for shifts after reserves postponed, even when gold is enjoying its momentary.

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