How Is The Financial Crisis Related To The Price Of Gold?
Almost every country of the world has faced the most awful monetary disaster during last ten years. The rising trade of the world has been slowing down. The stability in currency of one country had an intense impact on the neighbouring countries’ trade. Gold is a significant trade object; hence, it is affected by the up and down surging of currency values. Gold used to be considered as a safe way of keeping assets by a lot of the investors, makers and the market observers.
Now, when economic condition of almost country is suffering because of several reasons, the situation is different in terms of gold too. Gold, which is usually sold and bought in US dollars, is closely related to the value of dollar in the world. Since America was quite involved in controversial geographical and political issues of the world, it was expected that its currency will have to face a downfall in its value.
Quite strangely, a sudden and unexpected strength is observed in the US dollar. It did not only sustain its value, but also continued to meet an up urge. Dollar has been the beneficiary of the global flight. Instead of the downfall of the dollar, there was a steep and steady change in many currencies against it. The consumer markets were facing the worst change in trade value as the providing market was moving to the upper rung.
As compared to the US market, the contemporary emerging markets were badly crashed. The Mexican and Brazilian markets experienced nearly forty percent decline in their values as a result of the game of their currencies. Nevertheless, the US market remained established as compared to the lately emerging markets.
Rise in the value of US dollar resulted in the decline in the value of gold in the local market, however, this price stayed sturdy in the local currencies of great consumers like India and Turkey. The corporal value of gold immensely raised in the huge markets. The demand got vigorously unresponsive to the complete surrounding predicament. The investors were paying high because of the scarcity of the physical supply of gold in the market.
This demand also went on growing as no other material object could replace gold. It still occupies the central position in the trading policies. Its consumption remained the same. People minimised their other needs for the purchase of gold. As for the prediction of this metal’s value, it is difficult to say anything, regardless of the US dollar’s uncertainty.
However, gold’s value can be predicted if once the dollar or the economy of the world finds its track; the dollar weakness is going to drive the gold’s value above all the previous records of the years. For the settlement of the established rate of gold, US dollar must have to withdraw its controversial policies in the agenda of the world politics.
The worth of gold, as it rises or declines, surely affects the fiscal state of a country. Thus, directly or indirectly global economic disaster cannot be solved until the ambiguity of gold’s prices is solved.