Don't Let Gold's Painful Slide Fool You: Markets Won't Ignore Fundamentals Forever, Crypto Coins News

• Gold dumped more than 2.1% between Jan. and Feb. 4 as central-bank easing propped up the stock market.
• Relying on inflation to boost share prices will ultimately backfire against central banks, making gold more attractive.
• Bullion recovered on Wednesday, clocking in at a high of $ 1, . / oz.

The price of gold slumped into February after the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) injected emergency liquidity into the financial system to shore up stock prices amid the coronavirus scare . But as Peter Schiff warns, there’s only so much inflation central banks can pursue before it starts to backfire.

Money Printing Drives Stocks Higher

The onset of coronavirus triggered one of China’s worst stock-market meltdowns since the financial crisis . On Monday, mainland indexes were down as much as 9% in the first session back from the extended Lunar New Year holiday.

On the very same day, the People’s Bank of China injected 1.2 trillion yuan (US $ billion (into the financial system. The liquidity boost was meant to ease investors’ anxiety over the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed almost people and infected , 10 more .

The PBOC’s boost appears to have stabilized mainland markets and contributed to the sharp recovery in global stocks. Armed with fresh rounds of Federal Reserve liquidity and renewed easing from China, portfolio managers have been snatching up U.S. stocks over the past three days.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up another points on Wednesday , and has recovered more than 1, points over the last three sessions.

Since the Fed resumed quantitative easing in September, U.S. stocks have risen in virtual lockstep with the central bank’s balance sheet .

Gold Slide Unlikely to Last

The renewed appetite for risk has not only propped up stock prices, it has triggered a sharp correction in the price of gold.

Since rallying to three-month highs on Jan. , the gold price would go on to dump more than 2% over three trading days. The yellow metal corrected higher on Wednesday but still remains well off last week’s high.

Gold for April delivery climbed $

, or 0.6%, to $ 1, . a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Last week, prices peaked just north of $ 1, a troy ounce. Gold for April settlement recovered on Wednesday following a punishing two-day reversal. | Chart: barchart.com Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff tweeted earlier this week that the actions carried out by PBOC and other central banks will be a net positive for gold in the long run. That’s because “creating inflation to prop up stock prices is more bullish for gold than equities.”

Peter Schiff argues that central-bank inspired inflation will benefit gold in the long run. | Source: Twitter Gold is an established hedge against inflation, something central banks the world over are aggressively pursuing. Collectively, central banks slashed interest rates 90 times in , yet conventional measures of inflation remain below target.

As Mohamed El-Erian said earlier this week , investors seem to believe that central bank easing “can decouple us from fundamentals for a very long time.” according to Peter Schiff, investors will probably change their tune once they realize that monetary policy is never going to be normalized. When that happens, the dollar could see enormous volatility.

The yellow metal has traded at record highs in virtually every currency except the dollar. If Schiff’s thesis is correct, dollar-denominated bullion could return to record levels sooner than later.

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This article was edited by Josiah Wilmoth

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