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It's Monday and there's a lot to watch on the markets. Here are some of this morning's headlines.

And I offer them now because they prove

to be good conversation starters

for any listener or investor wishing to call

into Invest Talk with a question.

Headlight number one, Gold climbs on dollar weakness.

Remember, dollar goes down, gold goes up.

Cautious ahead of Fed. Now in perspective gold has fallen more than 12%

okay since it peaked in April and you know all against a backdrop of you know trade disputes and rising interest rates

Now are you holding any gold? You can talk about that if you like headline number number two, the United States and China

impose fresh tariffs on each other's goods on today, Monday. Now it looks like

the world's biggest economies are showing no signs of backing it out on this trade dispute they're in.

You know, does the talk of the tariff trade war make you nervous?

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