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Gold fell sharply below $4,200 in early Wednesday trading as escalating US-Iran tensions drove a flight into the US dollar and Treasury yields rather than the metal itself, inverting the conventional safe-haven playbook.
The drop arrived hours before the scheduled release of the US Consumer Price Index, a report markets are treating as the next significant catalyst for monetary policy expectations and near-term gold direction.
The Mechanism: Why This Geopolitical Shock Favored $FIAT The standard crisis trade is straightforward: tensions rise, gold rises. That transmission broke down Wednesday.
US-Iran friction raised the specter of supply disruptions and the inflation that follows — which hardened expectations of a more aggressive Federal Reserve.
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