We are forecasting that the Fed will hike US interest rates sooner and raise them further than the markets currently anticipate. A tightening of policy by the world’s most important central bank might be expected to be negative for the prices of most commodities, particularly gold. However, we expect the adverse impacts to be limited and, indeed, there might even be some positives.
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