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Here’s what I wrote: In general, gold behaves like a very-long-duration inflation-linked bond with a zero coupon. This makes sense – if we were to issue a bond that, in exchange for the current gold price, offered to pay the bearer no coupons but redeem for 1 ounce of gold in 100 years, it would have the same payoff as holding one ounce of physical gold for ...
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Further reductions of European Central Bank borrowing costs may risk a stronger impact on the euro exchange rate and inflation, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann. “If the original assumption of three rate cuts were to materialize, and the Federal Reserve didn’t respond, it would certainly have an impact on the exchange rate, and with it ...