Finance News
By Evie Vavasseur
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The Jobs Report Nobody Wanted. July's U.S. employment numbers were bad. Really bad.
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China's 21-Month Gold Streak. The People's Bank of China added another 20 tons of gold in July.
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Hormuz, Oil, and the Stagflation Risk. Geopolitical pressure is doing its part too. Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have pushed…
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Gold blew past $4,400. Not slowly, not quietly — it moved fast, and the reasons stack up quickly.
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The metal hit $4,467 per ounce, a sharp climb from the summer low of $3,966. That's a pretty significant swing in a short stretch of time. Behind the move: a brutal U.S.
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July's U.S. employment numbers were bad. Really bad. The economy shed 23,000 jobs — a number that stings even more when you consider economists had penciled in a gain of 80,000.
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It's basically the classic gold playbook: weak jobs, falling yields, metal goes up. And it played out almost textbook this time.
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The Fed now faces a harder call. Inflation hasn't gone away, but the job market is wobbling. If they cut rates to support growth, they risk feeding inflation further.
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Upcoming U.S. Consumer Price Index data will matter a lot here. Traders are watching those figures closely, since a hotter-than-expected CPI print could push yields back up and…
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The People's Bank of China added another 20 tons of gold in July. That's the 21st consecutive month of buying. Twenty-one months. China's total gold reserves now sit at roughly 76.
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No signs of slowing down, either. Inflows into Chinese gold-backed ETFs have stayed positive, which means it's not just the central bank — private investors in China are buying…
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China's gold accumulation fits squarely into its broader push as a BRICS member to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar.
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And as major institutions keep absorbing gold, the amount of metal actually floating freely on global markets shrinks.
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Geopolitical pressure is doing its part too. Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have pushed crude oil prices up 5%. That's not a small move.
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