🔥Is there more upside to gold prices?
The S&P 500-to-gold ratio has been declining over the last 3 years, following the same pattern seen after the 1929 crash, the 1970s inflation era, and the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble.
All of these events preceded prolonged periods of gold outperformance over stocks.
The ratio currently stands well above its long-run median of 0.70, suggesting gold has significant further room to outperform equities.
Given historically robust central bank demand, extremely large fiscal deficits globally, and geopolitical uncertainty, the trend is likely to stay intact.
If history rhymes, gold is likely to continue outperforming stocks for years to come.
‼️US inflation has been above the Fed's 2% target for the longest streak on record:
The PCE Price Index rose +3.5% YoY in April, the highest since June 2023, and has now remained above the Fed's 2% target for 60 months STRAIGHT.
The Federal Reserve formally adopted 2% as its explicit inflation target in January 2012 under Chair Ben Bernanke, having informally used it as an implicit benchmark since the mid-1990s.
Prior to the pandemic, PCE inflation spent most of the period between 2012 and 2020 below or near the 2% target, making the current 60-month streak of overshooting entirely without precedent in the modern inflation-targeting era.
The Fed's 2% target has been exceeded for 5 consecutive years and shows no sign of being reclaimed anytime soon.