Notes On The News: Gold, Oil And The Dollar
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The steady decline of the U.S. dollar could set the stage for inflation and slowing global growth.
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Gold swept to a record high on Wednesday  driven by surging oil, a weaker dollar and simmering  geopolitical tension, also ushering platinum to a record peak.
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Oil prices hit new record highs Monday  and the dollar slid against major currencies, piling up worries  in financial markets about slower growth and thinner corporate  profits.
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Gold hit another record high on Monday before losing some strength, but turmoil in financial markets and expectations of aggressive U.S. rate cuts may help the metal touch the psychological level of $900 an ounce soon.
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By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 21/08/2004). The price of oil came close to $50 a barrel in New York yesterday, as fighting between US forces and Moqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia in Iraq continued to inflame the market.
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The dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Tuesday morning. Gold prices fell.
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Fresh highs and international volatility. Sound familiar?
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Recent US interest rate cuts have helped create a liquidity boom in emerging markets (EM), fuelling demand for raw materials and boosting  stock markets. In turn, robust demand and a global oil supply contraction in the third quarter of 2007 recently pushed crude oil briefly above $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the US dollar is close to record lows, both against the euro and on a broad basis. More interestingly, the long-term correlation between oil and the dollar has moved from a historical average of -1 per cent to -80 per cent of late.
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Combination of weaker dollar, rising oil prices proves too much for stocks to handle in early going. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A weak dollar and rising oil prices weighed on stocks early Friday, with the technology sector bearing the brunt of the load.
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Is the Federal Reserve less sanguine about the effect the oil-price spike will have on the economy? Given the run-up in crude prices -- and rising fears that growth could be slowed measurably -- the markets
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Gold, benefiting from a weak dollar, peaked at $444.60 an ounce in Europe on Wednesday, and traders said the metal could rise higher still.
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Spot gold hit a record high at $855.10 an ounce on Wednesday in buying fuelled by a struggling dollar, surging oil and simmering geo-political tensions, traders said.
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Gold may top a 15-year high of $435 an ounce on speculation the re-election of US President George W. Bush will erode the dollar&#39;s value and make precious metals more appealing than US stocks and bonds, a survey showed.
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THE stock market is rising, but the dollar is falling. And the decline of the dollar is more likely to continue than the rally of the stock market.
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Record oil prices and a decline in the dollar have stocks dropping. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 20 points in today&#39;s early going.
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A rally in oil prices toward $50 a  barrel helped push down European shares on Monday, while the  dollar's recent rebound stalled ahead of meetings next week of  the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Group of Seven rich nations.  Euro zone government bond yields fell in sympathy with U.S.  Treasuries on a report that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan  Greenspan was happy to keep to a measured pace of rate hikes.