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Gold hits all-time high

Bullion surged as much as 1.4% to $2,798.59 an ounce, surpassing its previous all-time high set in October. A weaker dollar makes bullion more appealing for investors holding other currencies as it’s priced in the US currency.

“When you get rising inflation and you get declining growth, you get stagflation, then gold is one of the best-performing commodities in that environment.”

Source – Bloomberg

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