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Gold, The Ultimate Currency Hedge

Commodities / Gold and Silver 2010 Apr 29, 2010 - 12:43 AM GMT

By: Adrian_Ash

Commodities

Nothing works like gold when you need to hedge against your own currency...

WEDNESDAY'S NEWS that, at last, Standard & Poor's has caught up with the bond market – and the steady trickle of fleeing bank deposits – by downgrading Spanish debt had a marked effect on the Euro.


So did Tuesday's downgrade to "junk status" of Greece's government bonds. And the cut to Portugal's credit rating, too.

It all had a marked effect on gold as well, not least versus the Euro, but also against the US Dollar and Japanese Yen – apparently the only beneficiaries of "Ebola contagion" in Europe...

This week's action "demonstrates gold's ability to protect investors from crises that debase their own currency, but not those of other sovereign issuers," reckons Patrick Artus at French bank Natixis.

Investors seeking protection against the debasement of other currencies than their own are being just plain greedy, however, in our humble estimation. The 4-month high in Dollar gold prices should be enough for anyone trying to hide from Greek contagion, especially if they don't share Greece's currency. More to the point, and coming just after Italy's foreign minister called the Greek bail-out "a rescue for all of us", the mid-week contagion proves once again that nothing works like gold when you need to hedge against your own currency.

One third of gold's 38% rise vs. the Euro since the start of 2009 has come thanks to the single currency's fall on the forex market. But that only just brings the single currency's drop against gold into line with the Dollar's 1, 3 and 5-year performance, however.

Gold % Gain

 

USD

GBP

EUR

1 year

27.7

22.4

27.5

3 years

73.1

127.7

79.0

5 years

168.1

236.2

163.1

10 years

321.6

338.3

195.1

Even trading down to €28,760 per kilo of gold, in short – that "barbarous relic" thrown over in favor of Europe's post-historical unity 10 years ago – the Euro has still got a lot of long-term devaluation to go.

No doubt it will get it as well – good and proper – whichever way Germany's politicians jump.

Kind regards,

By Adrian Ash
BullionVault.com

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Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and a regular contributor to MoneyWeek magazine, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at www.BullionVault.com , giving you direct access to investment gold, vaulted in Zurich , on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.

(c) BullionVault 2010

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