Juan Carlos Artigas is the investment research director at the World Gold Council. BUSINESS DAY TV: If you timed your trades correctly in the gold price last year, you would have had, we hazard, a pretty flush holiday. Starting 2016 at around $1,100/oz the metal then raced up to its high of $1,366 in July before effectively collapsing and ending the year not far above where it started. The World Gold Council reckons that the yellow metal will be in vogue this year, supported by six trends it’s identified and the council’s director of investment research, Juan Carlos Artigas, joins us on the line now with more. Juan Carlos ... firstly, would you anticipate a recovery in the gold price this year? JUAN CARLOS ARTIGAS: We don’t forecast the price of gold directly. What we do instead is look at the demand and supply factors that influence gold and what we believe is that there is plenty of stock support in the gold market. That is not just about what the US dollar is doing or what the Fe...
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