{"id":752,"date":"2012-12-07T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:46:10","slug":"fade-goldmans-bearish-gold-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Fade Goldman&#8217;s bearish gold call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Tim Iacono<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/iaconoresearch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iacono Research<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iac160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753\" title=\"iac160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iac160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Iacono<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest research note on gold from investment bank Goldman Sachs &#8212; in which they see the gold bull market coming to an end in the months ahead &#8212; might be taken much more seriously if not for two factors:<\/p>\n<p>1. The call is based on a vastly improved U.S. economy next year that leads to higher real interest rates and they haven&#8217;t exactly been knocking the ball out of the park lately in their economic forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>2. The firm has a reputation for telling investors to do one thing and then betting against it, as many (some in Congress) believe was the case with subprime mortgages as the housing bubble peaked.<\/p>\n<p>In a private note that was widely reported at various internet sites, Goldman commodity analyst Damien Courvalin cited the underperformance of gold this year despite a host of positive factors and then offered this forecast for next year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/1050101-fade-goldman-s-bearish-gold-call?source=email_macro_view&amp;ifp=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read the entire article . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest research note on gold from investment bank Goldman Sachs &#8212; in which they see the gold bull market coming to an end in the months ahead &#8212; might be taken much more seriously if not for two 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