Gold climbs to four-month high
Mounting tension in the Middle East lifts gold and a weaker dollar provides added support
03 January 2020 - 07:26
Bengaluru — Gold prices climbed to a four-month high on Friday, as tension mounted in the Middle East after a senior Iranian military official was killed in a US air strike, while a weaker dollar also provided some support to the metal.
Iranian major-general, Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in the air strike on their convoy at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon said...
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