Gold Spikes To $900/oz As US China Tension Rises
January 26, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Gold spiked to within two dollars of $900/oz in holiday leaden Asian trading as saber rattling between US and Chinese officials regarding the manipulation of the yuan ratcheted the tension in global capital markets. Last week Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner stated that China was a currency manipulator sending shock waves through the financial markets as the Obama administration appears to have taken a much more confrontational stance with Chinese authorities than its predecessor.
