And if the future is Japanese-style stagnation, there will be no demand for a hedge against inflation.
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It used to be that gold bugs touted the yellow metal's credentials as a hedge against inflation.
Since equities are a claim on corporate revenues, surely they ought to be a hedge against inflation risk?
It is both a vital part of much jewelry and a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar.
Gold is viewed as a store of wealth and a hedge against inflation, as well as a traditional gift.
Many investors in recent years had bought gold as a hedge against inflation.
Gold is valued not for its scarcity, but as a hedge against inflation.
Gold pushed to higher levels throughout much of the 2000s as a hedge against inflation and an ever weakening dollar.
Gold has traditionally been seen as a hedge against inflation and as a safe haven in times of global turmoil.
It depends on two factors: First, on the prospect of economic outlook, especially on inflationary expectations gold is a hedge against inflation.
Average Chinese investors are buying gold as a hedge against inflation, according to a feature story in China Daily on Tuesday.
Investors are clamoring for silver as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical risks, and in the current environment it is working wonderfully.
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Past QE rounds have therefore led to higher risk taking in equities, junk bonds, commodities and foreign currencies as a hedge against inflation.
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We offered investors a way to get regular income and still have a hedge against inflation in the form of the commodity backing.
Gold is usually seen as a hedge against inflation, holding its value while the worth of other assets is eroded by rising prices.
Land can act as a hedge against inflation, and thanks to Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, there is plenty of cheap financing to be had.
Some see commodities in general, and gold in particular, as a hedge against inflation, and so may sell if their fears about rising prices abate.
Its price has been further lifted by investors using it has a hedge against inflation, which some economists argue will be re-ignited by quantitative easing policies.
Bowers tells readers to buy Fifty if they're looking for a hedge against inflation, but he has not added it to any of his model portfolios.
More than enough reasons to pile into gold, as a safe haven in a slowing economy and tumbling stock market, and as a hedge against inflation.
Metals are seen as a hedge against inflation a possible side effect of all the easy monetary policies as well as a comfort to those expecting a particularly dire outcome for the world.
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Folks tend to think gold is many things: a stable store of value, a hedge against inflation, a safe haven in times of trouble, a better alternative to fiat money.
Also weighing on oil prices was a sharply stronger dollar compared with the euro, which made commodities less attractive to investors who have bought oil futures as a hedge against inflation and weakness in the U.S. currency.
Investors who buy gold as a hedge against inflation should be reminded that fiscal austerity and higher long-term rates will push a weak world economy into stagnation, even a recession that hardly provide a bullish scenario for gold.
It also suggests that companies are amassing the materials either as a hedge against inflation or as a means of building up collateral with which to get more loans at a time when monetary authorities are attempting to tighten the credit supply.
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"We don't want to be in gold ahead of the normalization" of rates, Mr. Arbess says, though he may come back into gold at a later date as a hedge against inflation as the Fed sells some of the bonds it has purchased.
India will also sell from next month government bonds that will adjust returns based on the rate of inflation, a move aimed in part at weaning away small investors from buying gold as a hedge against high inflation.
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