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Daily Recap: Tuesday, August 18, 2020

It was another weak day for the U.S. Dollar due to selling pressures and a decline in the Treasury Yields, but Wall Street was soaring with tech stocks making big gains and leading the S&P 500 index to finally close at a new record level, recovering all of its losses due to the COVID-19 crisis. Meanwhile, oil prices edged higher and gold was able to build up on yesterday’s gains and closed, once more, above the $2,000 per ounce level. Here is the day’s news recap.

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