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The seismic events shaping the gold market

It’s interesting, if not frightening, to think of the gold market today as behaving like the ocean ahead of a tsunami, contracting back after a seismic event hundreds of kilometres away to reveal the ocean floor before an almighty in-rush floods everything.

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A series of events help paint that picture, starting with recent ceremonies to mark the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima tsunami in Japan which killed 16,000 people and caused a meltdown of a nuclear