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Gold price and Interest Rate

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Prediction by HDBS, economy already recovered and short term interest rate is expected to increase in next 6 months.The recovery of economy going to take time, hence, expected long term interest rate to remain stable. What would be the impact to Gold price? In view of the short term interest rate going to increase, the cost of holding gold would increase. People going to liquidate their position and they will when gold price start to show weekness. From the chat, gold price has breakout the long term resistence of USD1000 recently and touch the high of USD1200+. However, the gold miner chat not show the similar pattern. Who is the buyer that cause gold price go up all the way after breaking USD1000 level? Well, the research report show for top 10 holder of gold, all are countries but except the top buyer, which is a company. Since they bet on the gold price will going up, sooner or later, when the price going soft, they will force to liquidate their position. Another similar commodity,