Goldman Sachs raises end-2025 gold price forecast to $3,300 per ounce

(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs on Wednesday raised its end-2025 gold price forecast to $3,300 per ounce from $3,100, citing stronger-than-expected ETF inflows and sustained central bank demand. Goldman Sachs also raised its forecast range to $3,250-$3,520 from $3,100-$3,300 earlier, according to its research note. The investment bank expects large Asian central banks to continue their…

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    Trading Day: Investors find auto motive for caution

    By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist  Trump drives global trade war up a gear Investors went on the defensive Thursday, reducing exposure to risky assets like stocks after U.S. President Donald Trumpescalated the global trade wars with his plans…

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    Exclusive-Proposed US port fees on China-built ships begins choking coal, agriculture exports

    By Lisa Baertlein, Karl Plume and Timothy Gardner LOS ANGELES/CARLSBAD, Calififornia (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad….

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    State Dept denies deleting data on halted program tracking abducted Ukrainian children

    By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Wednesday denied that data collected in a government-funded program that helps track thousands of abducted Ukrainian children had been deleted, but acknowledged that the effort had been terminated as part of Washington’s sweeping freeze on almost all foreign aid. In a…

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    Blackwater founder to help Ecuador ‘do what it takes’ on gangs, minister says

    By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s security forces will “very soon” receive advice from Erik Prince, the private security executive, on fighting criminal gangs that are attempting to increase violence ahead of an April presidential runoff vote, Interior Minister John Reimberg said. President Daniel Noboa, who is locked in a tight contest with his…

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