UPDATE 1-BOFA says $1,500-$2,000 gold price feasible long term By Reuters | Tue
Jun 21, 2011 11:06am GMT
June 21 (Reuters) - BofA Merrill Lynch said an investment
demand required to sustain gold prices in a range of $1,500-2,000
per ounce could be feasible in the next five years.
The brokerage believes investment has had a critical influence
on the gold market and investor buying is the key to its
long-run supply and demand balances.
"We look at supply and demand balances required to
clear the gold market under three average price scenarios
(i.e. $1,000/oz, $1,500/oz and $2,000/oz over the coming
five years)," BoFA said in a note to clients.
The brokerage said gold prices above $2,000 or below $1,000
per ounce were not sustainable.
Sustaining a medium-term average price for the metal at
around $2,000/oz looked challenging, BoFA said.
"In our view, to push gold above this level would
require a disorderly sovereign default in the Eurozone or
QE3 in the US, both of which are not our base case at the
moment," the brokerage said.
Meanwhile, a decline in gold prices below $1,000/oz would
lead to a sharp pick-up in fabrication demand, BoFA said.
(Reporting by Soma Das in Bangalore; editing by James Jukwey)