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Why gold is no longer an effective USD hedge

Sam Kirtley | March 21, 2011 | 3:58 pm Precious Metals Gold 

During the first nine years of this gold bull market, gold prices moved with a near perfect inverse relationship to the US dollar. Indeed, in the early years gold was only really moving up against the greenback, it was only...

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