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Lately, the price of gold has been exploding.
The price of the precious yellow medal on the rise.
Gold made history, smashing record highs.
Prices for the precious medal briefly topped $3,000 an ounce today for the first time.
And this increase has a lot to do with what's happening around the world.
U.S.
President Donald Trump's tariff threats, geopolitical tensions.
It's making investors want to put their money somewhere secure.
So whenever things are really uncertain, people don't know what's going to happen next.
They tend to move their money into gold.
Gold is what's known as a safe haven asset.
It's because, you know, it's never going to go too crazy.
If you're an investor and you're investing in stocks of a company that could suddenly tank