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Let's explain this dollar drop its world business express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Liana Byrne.
What came out of the UK Prime Minister's trip to China and why are people in Germany getting free potatoes off the street?
So while gold and silver prices are reaching record highs,
the US dollar is going the other way down.
And this is unusual because the dollar is normally seen as the ultimate safe haven.
It's the currency most other currencies benchmark themselves against.
But these days, it's been weak as other currencies have been rising.