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The weak USD is driving important realignments

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Welcome to Thursday’s Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.

I'm David Chaston and this is the international edition from Interest.co.nz.

Today we start with news the fall of the USD is driving some renewed realignments.

To start we should note that gold has surpassed US Treasuries as the world’s largest reserve asset globally for the first time in 30 years driven primarily by sharply rising prices, and some aggressive buying by some (mainly autocrat) central banks.

Elsewhere in the real economy, the private US ADP employment…

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