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  1. Gold & Silver Investing Channel
  2. Despite Rising Rates, Investors Are Seeking Gold ETFs
Gold & Silver Investing Channel
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Despite Rising Rates, Investors Are Seeking Gold ETFs

Max ChenApr 06, 2022
2022-04-06

While hedge funds are ditching precious metals ahead of an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve stance on monetary policy, gold continues to gain momentum from increased physical demand and ongoing interest for physical gold-backed exchange traded funds.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s weekly disaggregated Commitments of Traders report for the week ended March 29 revealed money managers diminished speculative gross long positions in Comex gold futures by 6,103 contracts to 146,486 and even raised short positions 727 contracts to 38,184, Kitco reports.

Analysts argued that hedge funds are liquidating bullish bets due to the Federal Reserve’s increasingly aggressive interest rate tightening outlook. Markets are currently pricing in two 50-basis point hikes in the first half of 2022 alone. Rising rates make non-yielding assets like precious metals less attractive to new safe-haven government bond issues.

“The market anticipates rate hikes totaling 125 basis points at the next three Fed meetings and over 200 basis points by the end of the year,” Daniel Briesemann, precious metals analyst at Commerzbank, said in a note.

“The withdrawal of speculative financial investors is probably one reason why the gold price has fallen significantly from its early-March high and has been trending largely sideways between $1,900 and $1,950 since mid-March: they slashed their net long positions by 24% in the past three CFTC reporting weeks,” Briesemann added.

On the other hand, investors continued to pile into varying forms of paper gold and precious metals.

“ETF investors are remaining loyal to gold, on the other hand,” Breisemann said.

For example, the SPDR Gold Shares  GLD, the largest gold-related ETF by assets, has brought in a little over $2.2 billion in net inflows over the past month, according to ETFdb data.

Demand for physical gold bullion-backed ETFs have continued to rise, attracting inflows for the past 10-consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, Commodity analysts at European precious metals firm Heraeus calculated that 7.7 million ounces of gold have flowed into ETF markets over the 10-week period.

“This has been the longest streak of weekly gains in ETF holdings since March to August 2020,” the analysts said.

For more news, information, and strategy, visit the Gold & Silver Investing Channel.

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