Understanding gold investment

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by Chris Becker

Regular readers of my Macro Morning report would know that the gold price in USD recently broke out of a sideways funk, ostensibly on a poor retail spending economic report:

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Compare and contrast this daily breakout to that of the US Dollar Index (DXY), a weighted basket of major and minor currencies, which shows a significant breakdown in recent months in “King Dollar”:

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