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Gold prices rise over 4% in January 2025

Gold prices rise over 4% in January 2025

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Gold price today: It appears that investors around the world are parking their investments in safe-haven assets like gold, as they did in the previous calendar year as fresh concerns over Donald Trump’s tariff plans and elevated stock valuations are prompting them to exit risky assets in 2025, putting equity markets under significant pressure.

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US tariffs and strong US dollar may drag down industrial metals prices

Trump’s return: There are many small reasons but three big ones

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The US elections are over and the outcome is an uncontestable victory for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Trump got 50.4% of the national vote, a margin of more than 2 percentage points over Kamala Harris. This signals a decisive victory by recent US election standards. He won all seven swing states and got about the same number of votes in 2024 as in 2020 (Harris got 10 million fewer than Joe Biden had that year).

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Federal Reserve ready to cut interest rates by 25 basis points

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The US Federal Reserve (Fed) will announce monetary policy decisions following the November policy meeting on Thursday, just barely two days after Donald Trump was elected as the 47th president of the United States. Market participants widely anticipate that the US central bank will lower the policy rate by 25 basis points (bps) to the range of 4.5%-4.75%.

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Crude Oil Technical Analysis: OPEC+ Needs to Act

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Crude Oil prices could be set for a bear cycle as Donald Trump is set to become the next US President in January 2025. Trump has already committed in the runup to the presidential election that regulation and permitting will become less strict. At the same time, funds allocated to green energy will be diverted towards shale Oil and fossil fuel projects. That means structural additional supply is set to be released in 2025, on top of OPEC+’s foreseen supply normalization.

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Gold hits record high on Trump's tariffs

Trump tax cuts come at the right time for stocks. Further ahead, it gets murky.

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For stock markets, the short-term and long-term outcomes of the “Trump trade” won’t necessarily be the same.

Donald Trump’s victory

So far, President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday has been positively received by investors, as was the case in 2016. The S&P 500 rose 2.5% to a record close Wednesday, buoyed by Trump’s stated intentions to, among other tax cuts, take the corporate-tax rate from 21% to 15% for companies that manufacture in the U.S.

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