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Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 3:02 PM on Thursday, October 11th, 2018
  • Gold has finally woken up. The price of gold jumped 2.4 per cent on Thursday – the most in nearly 2 years – in a sign of safe haven buying amid a rout in global stock markets
  • The move is a sharp turnaround to gold’s recent performance

By: Henry Sanderson

Gold has finally woken up. The price of gold jumped 2.4 per cent on Thursday – the most in nearly 2 years – in a sign of safe haven buying amid a rout in global stock markets.

The move is a sharp turnaround to gold’s recent performance. Gold had fallen by 10 per cent before Thursday’s move higher, hit by a stronger dollar and rising US interest rates.

“As a stock market sell off continues gold is once again a desired destination in times of uncertainty,” Alfonso Esparza, senior market analyst at Oanda, a currency exchange, said. “The metal had lost some cache in minds of investors, but when there is no clear safe haven fonds are flowing to gold.”

US stocks turned sharply lower in morning trading on Thursday, with the S&P 500 down 0.6 per cent at 2769.35. Shares in London and Hong Kong also fell.

Gold last traded at $1,222 a troy ounce, its highest level since July 31.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/ca08c226-cd78-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956

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