Inflation keeps surging to multiyear highs, yet gold can’t catch a break
WSJ’s Dion Rabouin breaks down how inflation rises and why the Federal Reserve, Congress, the president and large corporations can all be held accountable. Illustration: Ryan Trefes.
The most actively traded gold futures contract has fallen $79.90, or 4.4%, to $1,727.40 troy ounce in July, on pace for its fourth consecutive month of decline. That would be the longest losing streak for gold since November 2020, after fresh signs of accelerating inflation spurred bets that the
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