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Gartman Warns Gold is No Safe Haven

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Buy gold if you like, but don’t think it’s part of building a safety net in your portfolio.

That’s the message from Dennis Gartman, the widely followed Gartman Letter author and hedge fund manager, who said Monday that the widely popular yellow metal is also generally misunderstood even by the people who swear by it.

“It’s the dumbest commodity in the history of man,” Gartman said during the IndexUniverse Inside Commodities Conference in New York. “It’s a currency, not a commodity. If it is understood as a currency, it is easier to understand what gold is.”

via CNBC

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency
trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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