World markets in the coming year will be heavily exposed to eased yet continued uncertainties in global economy and trade, analysts say. They believe that trade disputes, global growth slowdown, Brexit and geopolitical incidents will remain the major factors that will keep up pressure on the market and weigh on investor sentiment. In fact, a vulnerable, challenging market amid mixed expectations is already signaled by price hikes simultaneously in both risk and safe-haven assets at the end of 2019 as a relaxed monetary policy carried out by major central banks has enabled greater market liquidity. The gold price was ... (full story)