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Gold price rallies nearly 1% on Friday on renewed US debt concerns.  Markets fear that US President Trump’s spending bill will balloon the US debt even further.  Gold sees a weekly gain of around 4%, fully recovering from the previous week’s fall.  Gold (XAU/USD) price extends its weekly gains, trading near $3,330 at the time of writing on Friday, up nearly 1% on the day, on a new tailwind for the safe haven precious metal. The spending bill from United States (US) President Donald Trump passed through the House of Representatives on Thursday and is now on its way to the Senate. Traders are worried that the spending bill will only add more US debt, while income from tariffs remains to be seen as enough to provide funding for all the spending. The best place to track these concerns is the US 30-year benchmark rate. Yields in that maturity rallied to 5.15% on Thursday from 4.64% at the start of May, a more than one-year high since the 5.18% seen at the end of December 2023. Adding all things up, the recent downgrade on US credit rating from agency Moody’s, and now this spending bill, which adds $3.8 billion to the US debt, traders and market participants demand a higher premium or return before considering buying US debt bonds, which pushes US yields higher, the Economic Times reports.  Daily digest market movers: Yield vs. Gold correlation broken Yields on 10-year US Treasuries have pushed higher this week, topping 4.5%. In earlier years, such a move would have been a major headwind for Gold as it doesn’t pay interest, with bullion prices and yields typically moving inversely. That correlation has now weakened, Bloomberg reports. “Gold is likely to remain range-bound in the near term,” said Justin Lin, an analyst at Global…

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