

Gold has powered ahead this year, hitting a six-year high above $1,500 an ounce.
Gold is expected to strengthen further as global trade tensions, slowing economic growth and investors seeking alternatives to risk assets including equities boost demand.
Gold slipped as much as 0.4% earlier in the session after a near 1% drop On Thursday, as positive developments around the Sino-U.S. trade negotiations rekindled investor appetite for riskier assets.
Initially it looked as if Gold’s rally cooled this week as Beijing and China made conciliatory noises around trade, though investors still appeared nervous over the prospect for a further escalation of the battle.
The Dollar rose broadly Thursday amid renewed hopes that the U.S. and China will return to the negotiating table but the apparent price of de-escalation in the trade war could yet prove too steep for President Donald Trump, so markets may ultimately have set themselves up for disappointment.
China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a press conference that its officials have in fact been in contact with their U.S. counterparts and that a delegation will go to Washington next month to discuss the trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies, in an apparent contradiction of the official line from earlier this week.





