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Blistering metals rally sends gold, silver, copper to records
Metals extended their dramatic start to the year — with gold, silver, copper and tin all hitting record highs — as investors piled into the commodities as a red-hot alternative to more traditional assets. Frenzied buying in China across multiple metals has stoked the recent moves while investors have been seeking safe havens amid geopolitical flashpoints from Venezuela to Iran and the Trump administration’s attacks on the US Federal Reserve. Silver jumped as much as 6.1% Wednesday to top $92 an ounce for the first time while gold notched another all-time peak. Both metals pared some of the price advances during ... (full story)