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- 1:50Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Gold the price of gold declining. Today. You
- 1:55Speaker 1: can buy an ounce of gold for twelve hundred and
- 1:59Speaker 1: fifty one dollars an ounce. That is fifteen dollars less
- 2:03Speaker 1: than it costs yesterday. Here to tell us more about
- 2:06Speaker 1: gold and other commodities is Mike mccloan. He is commodity
- 2:10Speaker 1: strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence and he joins us here in
- 2:13Speaker 1: the studio. Mike, thank you very much for being here.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Great to see you. Give us the story on goal.
- 2:18Speaker 1: What's going on? Why the sell off? What are all
- 2:21Speaker 1: the connections. I think gold is just doing a little
- 2:23Speaker 1: bit of a catch up to the record high stock
- 2:25Speaker 1: market prices. The dollar really hasn't been much of a
- 2:28Speaker 1: factor this year, and gold really got its lift after Brexit.
- 2:31Speaker 1: That's when it moved above thirteen hundred dollars announced. Both
- 2:34Speaker 1: remember our gold started the year, It started the year
- 2:36Speaker 1: below eleven hundred dollars announced. Right now it's around twelve fifty,
- 2:39Speaker 1: so it's still up eighteen percent on the year. And
- 2:41Speaker 1: part of the reasons it's up, it's because there's this
- 2:43Speaker 1: proliferation of negative interest rates in the world that's still
- 2:47Speaker 1: a pretty good solid support for the world's really quintessential
- 2:50Speaker 1: you know, alternative asset um. So it's worth a little
- 2:54Speaker 1: bit about FED tightening. But you know we did that
- 2:56Speaker 1: last year too, and actually within the tightening, gold within
- 2:59Speaker 1: a day or two put in its low. So so
- 3:03Speaker 1: is this then okay? So is this then maybe just
- 3:04Speaker 1: a bit of a correction. Are you just people like,
- 3:08Speaker 1: you know, kind of lightning up to run it back up?
- 3:11Speaker 1: Because I think partly what also is happening, there was
- 3:13Speaker 1: this speculation that the ECB might be ready to start
- 3:17Speaker 1: tapering off on its bond purchases, put thoroughly to bed
- 3:21Speaker 1: today by the ECB minutes also by a couple of
- 3:25Speaker 1: e CP Council members, at least one of them speaking
- 3:28Speaker 1: of New York. Um. So if the if the FED
- 3:31Speaker 1: raises once, I think that's I'm a gold bull, That's
- 3:33Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So what, especially if the west of
- 3:36Speaker 1: the central banks in the world aren't gonna stop buying bonds.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I think that's a good assessment. I mean, gold head,
- 3:42Speaker 1: it got way overdone. Open interest reach a record high
- 3:46Speaker 1: in futures in July and it's come off since. And
- 3:49Speaker 1: this is very similar to what it did in two
- 3:51Speaker 1: thousand ten before it ran up to that high, or
- 3:55Speaker 1: that took a major collapse in the dollar. Hopefully that
- 3:57Speaker 1: won't happen. We don't think that won't happen. But gold
- 3:59Speaker 1: still as its value. It's just pulling back. There's definitely
- 4:02Speaker 1: been some profit taking. Open interests come off and the
- 4:04Speaker 1: question is whereas it continue. I think for gold to
- 4:07Speaker 1: really move and sustain above will probably needs something negative
- 4:11Speaker 1: in terms of the stock market or the dollar like
- 4:14Speaker 1: it did in two thousand ten. I guess we don't
- 4:16Speaker 1: really want that to happen. Well, that's where gold comes
- 4:18Speaker 1: in play. It's a diversifier and it's really done a
- 4:20Speaker 1: good job doing that this year. Tell us about what's
- 4:22Speaker 1: going on in oil. I've got a print right now.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Oil a front month at fifty and forty nine cents
- 4:29Speaker 1: a barrel. It's up sixty six cents today. Well, I
- 4:32Speaker 1: think there's two things to remember in oil. It's not
- 4:34Speaker 1: so much that OPEC is gonna reduce production. Is they're
- 4:37Speaker 1: going to stop the drill at will trend at least
- 4:40Speaker 1: they say they will. The market thinks it's gonna happen,
- 4:42Speaker 1: It doesn't always know that will happen. And we have
- 4:44Speaker 1: this hurricane brewing. That's really pretty good positive things for oil,
- 4:48Speaker 1: but we all know they overwhelming. The most significant way
- 4:50Speaker 1: to describe oil now is glut. One word glutt. We
- 4:54Speaker 1: all know that. And if oil sustains much higher, we're
- 4:56Speaker 1: gonna be more supply come on board. Yes, it doesn't
- 4:58Speaker 1: happen really quick. But oil and the fifty handle has
- 5:01Speaker 1: been pretty good resistance since the beginning of the year.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Last year. The key level is sixty, and I think
- 5:06Speaker 1: most traders, most investors know that this is a level
- 5:09Speaker 1: if they've been long and they should be lightning up
- 5:12Speaker 1: and being a little carefully. It's just been good resistance
- 5:14Speaker 1: for quite a while. It's been a good trade all year, right,
- 5:16Speaker 1: I mean you take a look at crude oil, I
- 5:18Speaker 1: mean it's up what more than thirty six percent in price?
- 5:21Speaker 1: This key thing to remember, it's been a good range trade.
- 5:24Speaker 1: But gold different than than gold. You can't really invest
- 5:27Speaker 1: in crude really has futures. So if you look at
- 5:29Speaker 1: the number one traded um oil ETF this year us SO,
- 5:33Speaker 1: it's up like five um. So. Actually, when it comes
- 5:36Speaker 1: to investing standpoints, sometimes it's better. It has been better
- 5:39Speaker 1: to sell oil on rallies rather than buy it on support.
- 5:42Speaker 1: But it's been stuck between forty and fifty for a while.
- 5:45Speaker 1: But yeah, that's where I like to really differentiate and
- 5:47Speaker 1: make the difference. If you look like you can buy
- 5:49Speaker 1: gold in et F and get that gold return, but
- 5:51Speaker 1: in oil it's a much different story. It has to
- 5:53Speaker 1: use futures. It rolls, and there's a little it's a
- 5:55Speaker 1: little more complicated, but for traders it's it can be fun.
- 5:58Speaker 1: So what's the uh what would you say the odds
- 6:01Speaker 1: are of oil going downhill? Again? I know we have
- 6:05Speaker 1: the latest to his inventories and they showed more demand.
- 6:09Speaker 1: But as you said, as people called call this glut,
- 6:12Speaker 1: this global glut a wall, right. And there's also I
- 6:16Speaker 1: think a lot of people are going to really believe
- 6:18Speaker 1: that Saudi Arabic can engineer this this kind of production
- 6:20Speaker 1: until you actually see it on paper, right, So uh,
- 6:25Speaker 1: and and and being carried out as well. Would you say,
- 6:29Speaker 1: one intent chance, how much the risk the oil actually
- 6:32Speaker 1: takes another turn towards the lows. We have to be
- 6:34Speaker 1: careful of the actual probabilities. But I think the thing
- 6:36Speaker 1: that remembers trends, your friend. And guess what, there's no trend.
- 6:38Speaker 1: It's been stuck in a range we all know supplies overwhelming.
- 6:42Speaker 1: It's getting up near the upper end of the range,
- 6:44Speaker 1: at least in the shorter term. It might extend a
- 6:46Speaker 1: little higher. And I think that we should remember trends,
- 6:49Speaker 1: your friend. It's near the upper end of the range,
- 6:50Speaker 1: and what's just expected to stick in the stick within
- 6:52Speaker 1: a trend and in the short term might be a
- 6:55Speaker 1: new one, but who knows how long it's gonna last.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Just quickly you want to do anything on corn or
- 7:00Speaker 1: or grains con there. Corn corn has reached recently reached
- 7:07Speaker 1: a ten year low. Supply is just is you know,
- 7:10Speaker 1: it's going to be the record year harvest in for
- 7:13Speaker 1: corn and soybeans, but the prices are reached so much
- 7:16Speaker 1: such a low level that the man is picking up exponentially.
- 7:19Speaker 1: We're just one weather event away from a pretty substantial railly.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I'm not predicting weather, but these things happen in cycles,
- 7:26Speaker 1: and expect that happened at some point. All right, he
- 7:29Speaker 1: knows how to watch that. Stop watch very very well.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Mike mclenn, Thank you so very much. Commodity strategist for
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