Goldman: Buy copper! Sell copper!

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This is funny. It gives us a great read on how hysterical is the commodity melt-up amid crashing Chinese property. Goldman can’t decide whether you should buy copper with both hands on shortages:

…we believe that rapidly tightening inventories will eventually force prices higher, and therefore retain high conviction in our year-end price target of $10,500/t.

Or sell it with both hands on crashing Chinese property:

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.