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Sharper Anxiety Continues To Pressure Global Markets

(Kitco News) – World stock markets were mostly lower again overnight, amid the heightened trader and investor anxiety in the marketplace. The U.S.-North Korea tensions have not receded and escalated a bit Thursday as U.S. President Trump again warned North Korea that any military action by that regime against a U.S. friend would prompt a massive response from the U.S.

Gold prices are modestly higher and hit a two-month high overnight, on continued safe-haven demand