© Reuters. An employee takes granules of 99.99 percent pure gold at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant, one of the world’s largest producers in the precious metals industry, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia November 22, 2018. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
(Reuters) – Copper and gold are expected to see the largest immediate price boost in the commodities sector from potential U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, analysts at Goldman Sachs said.
“The immediate price boost from a Fed driven 100 basis point decline in U.S. 2-year rates is the largest for metals, especially (6%), and then gold (3%), followed by oil (3%),” Goldman Sachs said in a Feb. 20 note.