Charting the Global Economy: Gold Soars Amid US-China Tensions

Gold and silver continued to rally this week, despite a Friday tumble, amid renewed trade tensions between the world’s top economies.

In China, credit growth slowed, dragged by government bond sales and sluggish loan demand among households and companies. In the US, private-sector gauges of inflation showed signs of tariffs boosting the prices of some goods in the absence of official government data.

Here are some of the charts that appeared on Bloomberg this week on the latest developments in the global economy, markets and geopolitics:

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Silver fell more than 6% Friday in its biggest drop in six ...