GOLD: the era of $1 800
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Gold grows in Asia on NKorea tensions
On Wednesday, gold gained in Asia because geopolitical tensions on the Korean peninsula drove risk sentiment.
December delivery gold futures went up 0.57% in New York being worth $1,269.81 a troy ounce.
On Wednesday, North Korea told it’s considering a possibility for a missile attack on the US Pacific territory of Guam, a bit later after Donald Trump said that any threat to America would be met with fury and fire.
Previously, China posted that July’s consumer and producer prices with CPI soared 0.1%, versus a 0.2% leap observed on month.
Overnight, the number one precious commodity declined, suppressed by a rebound in the greenback, after American job openings topped predictions, pointing to a surging labor market, thus raising expectations the key US bank will stick to its plan to lift rates at least once more in 2017.
Gold struggled to hold onto revenues because the US currency reached a nearly two-week maximum, after a measure of labor demand, American job openings, leapt 461,000 to a seasonally adjusted 6.2 million, which is the highest value since the series emerged in December 2000, as the Labor Department informed on Tuesday.
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