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Zitat von Geoffrey CaveneyAlles anzeigenPrecious Metals Vs. Base Metals: The China Risk Factor
Summary
- Natural resource investors are interested in both gold and precious metals, and copper and base metals, but the key question is which is the focus and priority?
- Since this July and August, my answer is that gold and precious metals are my focus and priority in today's market.
- Select junior gold miners are the better value and more likely to make much bigger gains faster in the next 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months.
- The downturn in the global copper market alongside the Chinese stock market in 2018 should set off alarm bells: something is wrong here.
- There is an unknown but significant risk that China's economy may be in far worse shape than anybody realizes, and this is a huge threat to the global copper and base metal market.
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This doesn't mean I'm "bearish on base metals". Not at all. There are plenty of bullish tailwinds for global copper demand, which many analysts have noted repeatedly in recent years, including myself. But 2018 has already clearly shown us that the direction of this market is not a one-way street. And Chinese economic and political risk is a potential unexpected headwind for this market, that I think most analysts are not properly appreciating.
The one huge advantage that gold has over copper, and just about all other commodities, is that an industrial decline has a negligible effect on the demand for gold. This is just as true of Chinese industrial demand as it is of US industrial demand or global industrial demand in general. In a world full of unknown and uncertain risks, such as those in China that I have discussed here, gold provides a safe haven protection that no other commodity on earth can match. That is why, today, my confidence in gold miners has to be greater than my confidence in copper and base metal miners.
Gruß, Jones