Gold was benefiting from an exit from perceived riskier assets such as stocks and the dollar, as investors woke up to news of a new potentially more...
Gold prices soared on Friday, as investors rushed into the perceived haven commodity after South Africa announced a potentially highly contagious new COVID strain.
Gold jumped as U.S. stock futures and equities in Asian and Europe tumbled on news of the discovery of a new COVID variant in South Africa with a high level of mutations. The B.1.1.529 variant has been detected in Botswana, travelers who visited South African in Hong Kong and a traveler who returned from Malawi in Israel.
A tumble for the dollar was creating a tailwind for dollar-pegged assets such as gold, with the ICE Dollar Index DXY, -0.52% down 0.6%.
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