Gartman Bets on Gold in Commodities Rally
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Base metals commodities are the strongest position against coming catalysts, noted investor Dennis Gartman said Monday on CNBC.
Earlier, data from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission showed that hedge funds are ramping up their commodities positions to a 16-month high, which Gartman said was “precisely the right thing” to do.
On “Fast Money,” the editor of The Gartman Letter pointed to the likelihood of QE3 from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank’s move “to monetize European debt” and an evolving China infrastructure.
“I think that means coal and base metals look to me the place to be. The world seems to be overtly bearish about China. I think the world should be more aggressively bullish about what’s going on in China,” he said. “I think the wind is behind the sails of the commodity markets in general.”
Gartman also offered some details about his gold positions.
“To me, it looks like I want to own gold on balance in almost any type of commodity terms, dollar terms, euro terms, yen terms. And I even want to own gold while being short of soybean meal,” he said.
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