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Gold Suffers Steep Selloff Below $4,000 Amid Tech Rout and Margin Calls
Gold is acting weird. It sold off steeply on Friday, despite falling bond yields and a modestly weaker dollar. Paradoxically, the mainstream financial media and market commentators continue to blame ongoing weakness in the gold market on persistent inflation worries. Consequently, investors find themselves in the position of dumping their traditional inflation hedges precisely when…
Market Divergence Deepens as Tech Selloff, US Midterms, and RBA Shift Drive Global FX and Commodities
Financial markets faced a complex web of competing pressures on Tuesday as investors weighed the unfolding US midterm elections against renewed technology-sector vulnerability, persistent questions surrounding artificial intelligence financing, and ongoing geopolitical friction in the Middle East. Rather than triggering a unified, conventional flight to safety, recent equity market caution produced a fragmented reaction across…
