“ “When interest rates are zero or close to zero, then gold is an attractive medium because you don’t have to worry about not getting interest on your gold and you see that the price of gold will increase as uncertainty increases in the markets.” . “ – Mark Mobius …
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Shares fell in Asia early Friday morning, after mounting tensions between the United States and China and a massive sale of tech stocks on Wall Street. Hong Kong HSI Hang Seng Index, -2.17% fell 1.9% while the Shanghai SHCOMP compound, -2.73% it sank 2.3% and the smallest-cap Shenzhen Composite 399106, …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
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The US dollar is taking a beating on Wall Street, measured by a popular index. The blame is partly on the revival of the EURUSD euro, -0.01% as European leaders forged a historic fiscal pact to lift the eurozone economy out of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought much of …
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The Asian actions were mostly on Tuesday due to rising hopes of an effective vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists at Oxford University reported that their experimental coronavirus vaccine elicited a protective immune response in hundreds of people who received the vaccine in an early trial. Other projects are …
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