It’s a commonly held assumption that gold benefits primarily from inflation. If that were entirely true, then there should be no reason for gold to be struggling against the prospects of increasing inflation now that trade relations between the U.S. and China are being patched up. The idea that gold loves inflation is only partially true, however.
What gold responds to more than anything else is the fear of the unknown. As I’ll explains here, strong evidence for a lack of inflation supports gold’s longer-term uptrend in the year to come. On a short-term basis,