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Fiat Money Destined to Lose Against Gold

Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010 Apr 09, 2010 - 11:49 AM GMT

By: Adrian_Ash

Commodities

With Euro-rates stuck near zero, which currency will be next on the right-hand side of XAU...?
 
FOR THE FIRST five years of its life, the European single currency was as good as gold, at least as far as the gold market was concerned.


Gold priced in Euros moved barely 10% away from its average price between Jan. 2000 and Jan. 2005, even as Dollar-gold prices rose by more than one-half. And in this, the Euro more than equaled its predecessor, the Deutsche Mark.

During the last 10 years of the DM, the daily Gold Fix in Frankfurt had moved 20% either side of its average. US Dollar prices moved in a 50% range.

Since the middle of the last decade, however, the Euro's gold-tracking stability has deserted it. Gold's pre-Euro peak against the Deutsche Mark is also a distant memory.

As the chart above shows – calculating the equivalent DM price from Dresdner Bank's Euro Fix at the irrevocable exchange rate – gold has now beaten the spike of Jan. 1980 by some 16.8%.

  • Change in Euro gold price, Jan. '05 to date: +168%
  • Change in USD gold price, same period: +165%

The outlook? The finance industry's previous trick of creating synthetic XAU/USD positions for Euro investors has suddenly flipped over in 2010, with banks now advising and creating synthetic XAU/EUR positions for Dollar-investors instead.

  • Change in Euro gold, 2010-to-date: +13.5%
  • Change in Dollar gold, same period: +5.3%

Yes, those Eurozone funds sold on replicating gold's Dollar-price moves have missed out on the metal's much simpler (and cheaper) currency-hedge gains. But by keeping its rates stuck at 1.0%, the European Central Bank is inviting speculators to fund the new long-gold/short-Euro bet at very low cost, if not quite as cheaply as short Dollars, Yen or Sterling.

"We all share a destiny in common," said ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet at Thursday's press conference. But that common destiny was supposed to be the Deutsche Mark's famous stability, rather than Club-Med-style currency attack.

And in a world of near-zero rates everywhere, the real question is which major currency will be next to sit on the right-hand side of XAU – the wrong side of gold – in bank-analyst tips.

By Adrian Ash
BullionVault.com

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Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and a regular contributor to MoneyWeek magazine, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at www.BullionVault.com , giving you direct access to investment gold, vaulted in Zurich , on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

(c) BullionVault 2010

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