Gold fell again today after the Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing index hit 58.6 when the consensus expected it to drop 55. Anything above 50 is a sign of expansion, so this development makes it more likely that we will see tapering in the near future, reports Debarati Roy for Bloomberg.
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