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In times of global crises, the price of gold shoots up as investors look at the yellow metal as a safe haven against inflation.
Gold has been under pressure since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February, launching a months-long war. Prices have fallen from a high of $5,303 per troy ounce (31.1g) on January 28 to $4,235 on Friday.
That is because soaring inflation has raised concerns that central banks will not slash interest rates. They may even hike them to rein in prices.
To retaliate against the US and Israel, Iran has been blocking traffic through the waterway since the start of the war, impeding a major artery for oil and gas shipments. Energy prices have shot up in response, which in turn has pushed up inflation.
Gold is as close to real money as is possible in terms of an asset,” Justin Cardwell, head options analyst for the financial website OptionSpreaders.com, told Al Jazeera. “It doesn’t collect dividends, but it also doesn’t yield value till prices go up. People buy gold for its appreciation [in value].”
When the dollar strengthens, gold feels the pressure; when the dollar weakens, gold tends to climb. Right now, the dollar is strong, and gold is feeling it,” Collin Plume, CEO of Noble Gold Investments, told Al Jazeera in an email.
A few months ago, what came next was a rate cut, so prices were rising and assets were appreciating across the board. That’s changed. Now we’re facing headwinds, including the real potential of a rate increase. Any asset is affected by that shift, and gold is especially price-sensitive to interest rates.”
On Friday, as the news of a potential deal between the US and Iran broke, gold closed slightly higher than on the previous day.
Headlines of the possibility of the war coming to close would be positive for gold because the assumption is that inflation will come down,” said Cardwell.
“This range that gold’s currently in, it’s very likely this is a place of support. Even when the war ends, there are so many other factors that will keep a lid on what gold prices can do,” Cardwell added.
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Alice Carrier had recently started playing the guitar again, a hobby she enjoyed in high school but had set aside during college. It was one of several pursuits she filled her free time with as she interviewed for new jobs, spent time with her dog and enjoyed activities, including gaming.
By all appearances, at least to her mother, Kristie Carrier, things were going well. Alice was working as a web developer in Montreal, Canada, fulfilling a dream she had carried since growing up in the small town of Lawrence, New Brunswick.
“Things were going in a good direction, and things seemed to be getting better for her,” Carrier told Al Jazeera
But what Carrier did not know was how much her daughter was struggling in silence. In 2023, she began using ChatGPT to help identify issues with computers and gaming consoles, but that quickly shifted to being more of a confidant amid feelings of loneliness, isolation and of being unloved
Alice struggled with her mental health. While she was taking medication and regularly in therapy, according to her mother, for months she confided in the chatbot. She shared thoughts of suicide and sought ways to carry it out, which, according to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday in a California court, happened more than 40 times
Another study from West Texas A&M University that also targeted adolescents and young adults found that nearly a fifth of all adolescents developed dependency on AI, with previously existing mental health problems a predisposition for developing the dependency.
Legislators have begun to take note. In Canada, a new digital safety bill, introduced on Wednesday, would require companies such as OpenAI to be more “transparent” about their reporting standards in crisis situations, where users may hurt themselves or others.
In Washington state, the governor signed a bill into law that requires AI chatbots to remind users they are not human every three hours and is set to take effect in January 2027. Other states like Illinois, for example, have banned AI therapy.
On the federal level, Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, introduced a bill that would require chatbot companies to notify parents of interactions where suicidal ideation is discussed by a user. However, this bill only applies to minors
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