Gold, in the 11th year of its longest winning streak in at least nine decades, is poised to enter a bear market, according to Dennis Gartman, who correctly predicted the slump in commodities in 2008. However another friend feels that gold prices will be steady and will not crash as predicted worldwide.
The metal...may decline to as low as $1,475, the economist wrote today in his Suffolk, Virginia-based Gartman Letter. He sold the last of his gold yesterday. Bullion has already dropped 13 percent from the record $1,921.15 reached Sept. 6 and $1,475 would extend that to more than 20 percent, the common definition of a bear market.
"Since the early autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere gold has failed to make a new high," Gartman wrote. "Each high has been progressively lower than the previous high, and now we've confirmation that the new interim low is lower than the previous low. We have the beginnings of a real bear market, and the death of a bull."
In China, the second-largest consumer, gold imports to the mainland from Hong Kong surged 51 percent to 86.3 tons in October to a monthly record, according to the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong government. China imported more than 300 tons for all of 2010, Yi Gang, People's Bank of China Vice Governor, said in February.
"Buying of that sort should have sent gold prices soaring," Gartman wrote. "One of the oldest rules of trading is simply this: a market that cannot or does not respond to bullish news is a bearish market not a bullish one."
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