Oil market updates on December 4
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Gold edges up on diving greenback
On Monday, gold managed to rally because the evergreen buck sank, while trade worries between China and America backed the precious commodity too.
August delivery gold futures rallied by 0.2% on the Comex exchange being worth $1,273.60 a troy ounce.
America is about to declare China’s investment in American technologies companies a real threat to economic as well as national security. It follows from reports uncovered on Monday that cited eight folks already familiar with those ambitious plans.
In addition to this, the reports stressed that American Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin would propose to administer the law in a report expected to be published on June 29.
On Friday, American leader Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20% duty on all American imports of European Union-assembled vehicles, boosting trade tensions with the European bloc.
Certainly, the European Union came up with a response. As a matter of fact, a senior European Commission official told that the European Union would adequately respond to any American move to have duties on vehicles produced in the EU lifted.
At the same time the USD Index, which normally gauges the evergreen buck versus a bunch of six key currencies, went down in morning trade, hitting 94.4960. It’s apparent that the USD has been going up since April, although the looming trade conflict is starting to generate jitters on the market.
That’s a common occurrence greenback-denominated assets, including gold happened to be sensitive to any changes in the evergreen buck. Therefore, a dive in the US currency normally makes gold less costly for those investors who hold foreign currencies, therefore spurring demand for the number one precious metal.
As for other precious metals, silver futures went down by 0.54% demonstrating an outcome of $16.370 a troy ounce. Additionally, platinum futures rallied by about 0.35% showing $878.10 an ounce.
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