War on Syria Impact on Crude Oil & Gold Prices

ET Now: How do you see the increasing geopolitical risk impacting crude and gold?

Marc Faber: The impact will be more severe on financial assets. The price of gold has recovered sharply from $1180 to around $1400. On further hostilities, we will have some profit taking in gold, but we have made a major low at $1180.
Oil price has already been rising. but could rise further depending on the expansion of the hostilities. Do not forget that Assad, though not a close ally, is aligned with Iran's policy. Therefore, if he is attacked, Iran may perceive this as an attack on Iran and may counter react. The hostilities could escalate and that may mean that the price of oil could rise quite substantially.

Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.

Marc Faber on where Gold Prices are headed in 2013

Marc Faber : “I think that the trend for gold prices will be steady, but the trend for the dollar and other currencies will be down. In other words, in dollar terms the price of gold will trend higher. How high it will go, you have to call Mr. Bernanke and at the Fed, there are other people actually that make Mr. Bernanke look like a hawk. So they are going to print money. And they have done it for ages already and where has it led? To record high unemployment essentially since the Great Depression and structural unemployment. Unemployment goes among low paying jobs, not high paying jobs. So, you ought to own some gold, but don’t store it in the U.S. because the Fed will take it away from you one day.” - in Bloomberg
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